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Exodus 22:15

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15 But if the owner of it shall be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for his hire.

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Arcana Coelestia #9129

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9129. 'There shall be bloodguilt for him' means that he is guilty. This is clear from the meaning of 'blood' as violence done to good or truth, thus being guilty of that violence, spoken of above in 9127.

  
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