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od says, "It (the death) shall surely be _avenged_," (_Nakum_,) that is, _the life of the wrong doer shall expiate the crime_. The same word is used in the Old Testament, when the greatest wrongs are redressed, by devoting the perpetrators, whether individuals or communities, to _destruction_. In the case of the _unintentional_ injury, in the following verse, God says, "He shall surely be" _fined_, (_Aunash_.) "He shall _pay_ as the judges determine." The simple meaning of the word _Aunash_, is to lay a fine. It is used in Deut. xxii. 19. They shall _amerce_ him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron. xxxvi. 3--"He condemned (_mulcted_) the land in a hundred talents of gold.--This is the general use of the word, and its primary signification. That _avenging_ the death of the servant, was neither imprisonment, nor stripes, nor amercing the master in damages, but that it was _taking the master's life_ we infer. 1. From the _Bible usage_ of the word Nakam. See Genesis iv. 24; Joshua x. 13; Judges xv. 7-xvi. 28; 1 Samuel xiv. 24-xviii. 25-xxv. 31; 2 Samuel iv. 8; Judges v. 2; 1 Samuel xxv. 26-33, &c. &c. 2. From the express statute in such case provided. Leviticus xxiv. 17. "_He that killeth_ ANY _man_ shall surely be put to death." Also Numbers xxxv. 30, 31. "_Whoso killeth_ ANY _person_, the murderer shall be put to death. _Moreover ye shall take_ NO SATISFACTION _for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death_." 3. The Targum of Jonathan gives the verse thus, "Death by the sword shall assuredly be adjudged." The Targum of Jerusalem thus, "Vengeance shall be taken for him to the _uttermost_." Jarchi gives the same rendering. The Samaritan version thus, "He shall die the death." Again, the last clause in the 21st verse ("for he is his money") is often quoted to prove that the servant is his master's _property_, and _therefore_, if he died, the master was not _to be punished_. _Because_, 1st. A man may dispose of his _property_ as he pleases. 2d. If the servant died of the injury, the master's _loss_ was a sufficient punishment. A word about the premises, before we notice the inferences. The assumption is, that the phrase, "HE IS HIS MONEY," proves not only that the servant is _worth money_ to the master, but that he is an _article of property_. If the advocates of slavery will take this principle of interpretation into the Bible, and turn it loose, let them either give bon
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