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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
289 - KILLING A HUMAN BEING
Exodus 20:13 -- “You shall not murder.”
Exodus 21:14 -- “But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you shall take him from My altar, that he may die.”
Deuteronomy 5:17 -- “You shall not murder.”
According to the Mishnah: “Whosoever destroys a single soul, Scripture regards him as though he had destroyed a whole world.”*
* Sanh. 37a