Thou shalt not kill...I have heard, this means murder...?

Question

but killing and murder..you still end up dead..what is the difference meant in this commandment?

Answer 1

A number of translations use the word “kill” at Exodus 20:13; among these are the Douay Version, the Catholic Confraternity, the American Standard Version and the Revised Standard Version. However, the New World Translation uses the word “murder” instead of “kill” at Exodus 20:13. To murder means: “to kill (a human being) unlawfully and with premeditated malice or willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully.”—Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.

It is evident, in the light of the rest of God’s Word, that Exodus 20:13 did not prohibit all killing; for the Israelites were allowed to put to death, in fact, were commanded by God to put to death murderers, idol worshipers, breakers of the sabbath, and so forth. Thus execution of a murderer would not be unlawful in God’s eyes and could not be considered “murder”; it would not be in violation of Exodus 20:13. (Gen. 9:6)

It is specifically unlawful killing (slaying) of a human or murder that God prohibits. With sound Scriptural reason, then, not only the New World Translation but also Robert Young’s version, James Moffatt’s version, Knox’s translation, the Soncino version and An American Translation render ratsach at Exodus 20:13 as “murder.”

Answer 2

O- lets go back to the original hebrew. The commandment is: LO TACHMUD - Do not murder.
If the commandment were: LO TIRHAG - then that would mean Do Not Kill.

So the hebrew is very distinct an unambiguous.

Whats the difference between the two? Murde ris killing somebody unlawfully. Killing is when you kill somebody by accident or lawfully. When is it lawful to kill someone? IN self defense, a soldier killing an enemy soldier in battle, a policeman killing a criminal engaged in criminal activity, an executioner carrying out the orders of a legitimate court- these are all situations where somebody is killed lawfully.

Answer 3

There is just a shade of difference between killing and murder. For example, one kills in war and in self-defense. But one murders when he takes the life of another unnecessarily.

look at it this way - all murder is killing but not all killing is murder

hope this helps

Answer 4

Murder and Killing in a sense is both the same in one way as the result is still death,
However, in Murder,it is pre-meditated and thought about and motivated by greed or jealously or blind hatred.
Killing on the other hand is done by for example: self defense of your life, or the lives of your loved ones to protect them from harm.

Some wonder how God can approve both capital punishment (Exodus 19:12) and this prohibition of murder. The simple answer is that in Hebrew as well as English, there is a distinction between to kill and to murder. As opposed to killing, murder is the taking of life without legal justification (execution after due process) or moral justification (killing in defense).

b. You shall not murder: Jesus carefully explained the heart of this commandment. He showed that it also prohibits us from hating someone else (Matthew 5:21-26), because we can wish someone dead in our hearts, yet never have the “courage” to commit the deed. Someone may not kill from a lack of courage or initiative, though his or her heart is filled with hatred.

Answer 5

it means not to take another life willingly.. the only way you should take another life is in self defense.
I think that it is crazy and outrageous how people use religion to have wars.
What makes one religion so right and all of the others wrong?
I don't know how so many people can be so self righteous and kill people in the name of God.
If the world was more spiritual and threw out religions we would all be allot better off.

Answer 6

Think of it in legal terms. Murder means pre-meditated; planning and causing the death of someone. If you run a red light and that causes an accident in which someone dies, that is not murder, but it is still irresponsible and would be manslaughter. If someone breaks into your house to attack you, and you defend yourself by hitting him with a baseball bat and he dies, that's legally self-defense. Hope this helps.

epidavros, could you please show me in the bible where it says we should kill gays or Muslims. Cuz it sure isn't in my bible. What kind of book are you reading???

Answer 7

you already know no longer something of the suited strategies of Biblical diagnosis and interpretation. Context dictates how a passage is to be rendered. The context it is approximately one's relationship with others interior the Israelite community. this is not addressing situations of criminal punishment or events of war, that are lined someplace else. So the suited information in English is that of homicide. And on your tips, it is all in terms of the "previous" covenant; a criminal settlement that grew to become into between the Israelites and God, and no others. Christians are actually not a party to this covenant. Christians have a command to have love even for an enemy. One would not homicide those they love. .

Answer 8

To murder someone is to lie in wait for them, it is a preplanned murder. To kill someone by accident or self defense is not murder and to have to kill the enemy in a time of was is not murder.

Answer 9

I think it is do not murder. This is intentional and planned. I think killing was the punishment, and it is also necessary in war. This is as it was in Old Testament times.

Answer 10

murder is from the 7 things god hates murder and kill are the same