Word: smiteth
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...your Essay on capital punishment, you claim that the Bible contradicts itself on this issue. You quote "Thou shall not kill" from Exodus 20:13 and "He that smiteth a man so that he die, shall be surely put to death" from the next chapter. There is no contradiction. The passage in Exodus 20 should be translated "Thou shalt not murder." Hebrew has a specific word for murder, a word that is never used where the context is war or the execution of a criminal...
...calls for clemency in individual cases. Jews are generally against the death penalty, and Israel has no capital punishment except for genocide and war crimes, which covered Eichmann. As for the Bible, it instructs, "Thou shall not kill," and then, in the next chapter of Exodus, provides, "He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death...
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