Parallel Verses
King James 2000
You shall not kill.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Thou shalt not kill.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
"You are not to commit murder.
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not murder.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not kill.
Amplified
“You shall not commit murder (unjustified, deliberate homicide).
Bible in Basic English
Do not put anyone to death without cause.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not kill.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not kill.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"You shall not murder.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not kill.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Thou shalt not kill.
NET Bible
"You shall not murder.
New Heart English Bible
"You shall not murder.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not commit murder.
Webster
Thou shalt not kill.
World English Bible
"You shall not murder.
Youngs Literal Translation
'Thou dost not murder.
Themes
Commandment » The ten commandments
The ten commandments » Enumerated
The law of God » Given » To the israelites
natural Life » Of others, not to be taken away
Murder » Forbidden by mosaic law
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 20:13
Prayers for Exodus 20:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Ten Commandments
12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you. 13 You shall not kill. 14 You shall not commit adultery.
Cross References
Romans 13:9
For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Genesis 9:5-6
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Exodus 21:20
And if a man strikes his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her bloodshed, and shall no more cover her slain.
Matthew 5:21-22
You have heard that it was said by them of old time, You shall not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
Matthew 19:18
He said unto him, Which? Jesus said, You shall do no murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,
James 2:11
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if you commit no adultery, yet you kill, you are become a transgressor of the law.
Genesis 4:8-23
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Exodus 21:14
But if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Exodus 21:29
But if the ox were accustomed to gore with its horn in time past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but that it has killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
Leviticus 24:21
And he that kills an animal, he shall restore it: and he that kills a man, he shall be put to death.
Numbers 35:16-34
But if he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 5:17
You shall not kill.
Deuteronomy 19:11-13
But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and wounds him mortally that he dies, and flees into one of these cities:
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and repay it.
Psalm 10:8-11
He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs 1:18
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Jeremiah 26:15
But know you for certain, that if you put me to death, you shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants: for of a truth the LORD has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
Acts 28:4
And when the natives saw the creature hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice allows not to live.
Galatians 5:21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 1:9
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
James 2:13
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.
1 John 3:12-15
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.