“If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Exodus 21 contains 36 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.