If a monk tells another monk, “Kill so-and-so,” he commits an offense of wrong conduct.

If the other monk kills another person, thinking it is someone other than the one he was told to kill, there is no offense for the instigator, but there is an offense entailing expulsion for the murderer. By a series of messengers:

If a monk tells another monk, “Tell so-and-so to tell so-and-so to kill so-and-so,” he commits an offense of wrong conduct. In telling the next person, there is an offense of wrong conduct. If the potential murderer agrees, there is a serious offense for the instigator.

If he kills that person, there is an offense entailing expulsion for all of them. By a messenger who does not follow instructions:

If a monk tells another monk, “Tell so-and-so to tell so-and-so to kill so-and-so,” he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If the other monk tells another person than the one he was told to tell, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If the potential murderer agrees, there is an offense of wrong conduct. If he kills that person, there is no offense for the instigator,

but there is an offense entailing expulsion for the messenger and for the murderer. By a messenger gone and returned again:

If a monk tells another monk, “Kill so-and-so,” he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If the other monk goes, but returns, saying, “I wasn’t able to kill them.” If the first monk tells him again, “When you’re able, then kill them,” he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If the other monk kills that person, there is an offense entailing expulsion for both.