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One of the oldest known prohibitions against murder appears in the Sumerian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu Code of Ur-Nammu] written sometime between 2100 and 2050 BC. The code states, "If a man commits a murder, that man must be killed." The payment of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild weregild] was an important legal [[mechanism]] in early Germanic society; the other common form of legal reparation at this time was blood [[revenge]]. If someone was killed, the [[guilty]] person would have to pay weregild to the [[victim]]'s [[family]].
One of the oldest known prohibitions against murder appears in the Sumerian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu Code of Ur-Nammu] written sometime between 2100 and 2050 BC. The code states, "If a man commits a murder, that man must be killed." The payment of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild weregild] was an important legal [[mechanism]] in early Germanic society; the other common form of legal reparation at this time was blood [[revenge]]. If someone was killed, the [[guilty]] person would have to pay weregild to the [[victim]]'s [[family]].
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Murder''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Murder '''''this link'''''].</center>
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religion Abrahamic religions], the prohibition against murder is one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments Ten Commandments] given by [[God]] to Moses in ([http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.20 Exodus: 20v13]) and ([http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.5 Deuteronomy 5v17]). The Vulgate and subsequent early [[English]] [[translations]] of the [[Bible]] used the term [[secret]]ly killeth his neighbour or smiteth his neighbour secretly rather than murder for the [[Latin]] ''clam percusserit proximum''.
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religion Abrahamic religions], the prohibition against murder is one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments Ten Commandments] given by [[God]] to Moses in ([http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.20 Exodus: 20v13]) and ([http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.5 Deuteronomy 5v17]). The Vulgate and subsequent early [[English]] [[translations]] of the [[Bible]] used the term [[secret]]ly killeth his neighbour or smiteth his neighbour secretly rather than murder for the [[Latin]] ''clam percusserit proximum''.