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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 20:13 Catholic Bible: "Do not commit murder. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/exodus/20-13.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/exodus/20-13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/exodus/20-13.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/1.htm">Exodus</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/20.htm">Chapter 20</a> > Verse 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/20-12.htm" title="Exodus 20:12">◄</a> Exodus 20:13 <a href="../exodus/20-14.htm" title="Exodus 20:14">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/exodus/20.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/exodus/20.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Do not commit murder. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/exodus/20.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You shall not murder.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/exodus/20.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Do not murder. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/exodus/20.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You shall not kill.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/exodus/20.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt not kill.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Thou shalt not kill.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/21-14.htm">Exodus 21:14,20,29</a> If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/4-8.htm">Genesis 4:8-23</a> And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/9-5.htm">Genesis 9:5,6</a> For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/24-21.htm">Leviticus 24:21</a> He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/35-16.htm">Numbers 35:16-34</a> If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/5-17.htm">Deuteronomy 5:17</a> Thou shalt not kill.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/19-11.htm">Deuteronomy 19:11-13</a> But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/12-9.htm">2 Samuel 12:9,10</a> Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/21-16.htm">2 Kings 21:16</a> Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/24-22.htm">2 Chronicles 24:22</a> And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/10-8.htm">Psalm 10:8-11</a> He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/1-11.htm">Proverbs 1:11,18</a> Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/26-21.htm">Isaiah 26:21</a> For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/26-15.htm">Jeremiah 26:15</a> But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death, you will shed innocent blood against your own selves, and against this city, and the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me to you, to speak all these words in your hearing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/5-21.htm">Matthew 5:21,22</a> You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/28-4.htm">Acts 28:4</a> And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/13-9.htm">Romans 13:9</a> For: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/5-21.htm">Galatians 5:21</a> Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/1-9.htm">1 Timothy 1:9</a> Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/2-11.htm">James 2:11,13</a> For he that said: Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also: Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but shalt kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/3-12.htm">1 John 3:12-15</a> Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/exodus/20.htm">The Ten Commandments</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">12</span>Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee. <span class="reftext">13</span><span class="highl">Thou shalt not kill.</span><span class="reftext">14</span>Thou shalt not commit adultery.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/5-21.htm">Matthew 5:21</a></span><br />You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/19-18.htm">Matthew 19:18</a></span><br />He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/10-19.htm">Mark 10:19</a></span><br />Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, bear not false witness, do no fraud, honour thy father and mother.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/18-20.htm">Luke 18:20</a></span><br />Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Honour thy father and mother.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/13-9.htm">Romans 13:9</a></span><br />For: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../james/2-11.htm">James 2:11</a></span><br />For he that said: Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also: Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but shalt kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/4-23.htm">Genesis 4:23</a></span><br />And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/9-5.htm">Genesis 9:5</a></span><br />For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/9-6.htm">Genesis 9:6</a></span><br />Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/21-12.htm">Exodus 21:12</a></span><br />He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7</a></span><br />Thou shalt fly lying. 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