World English Bible

Exodus 21:14

“If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.”

Verse in context — Exodus 21

One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

God delivers Israel from Egypt, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes His covenant with His people.