7 occurrences

'Neighbour' in the Bible

To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyManslaughterNot HatingUnintentional

This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.

Verse ConceptsDebtlent

This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;

Verse ConceptsMurderManslaughterNot HatingUnintentional

For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

Verse ConceptsWaitingPeople WaitingJudged As Murderers

Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:

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Neighbor (163 instances)
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Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain