>When I was young it was made clear to me that the directive was specifically against 'criminal killing' of anykind, not the justified killings mentioned elsewhere in the bible. :o)
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>I always found it interesting the many places in the Bible that justify war, methods for capital punishment, and the slaughter of animals.

But then isn't the first part of the book under permanent study, because they didn't bother with actually writing down the vowels, so the meaning is still sought? Then, who knows how many other such errors the translations may contain?