Exodus 21:12
Whoever strikes a man, intending to murder, shall be put to death.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
In Context
11If he does not do these three things, she shall depart freely, without money.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind.
Exodus 20:13You shall not murder.
Numbers 35:16If anyone will have struck someone with iron, and he who was struck will have died, then he shall be guilty of homicide, and he himself shall die.
Deuteronomy 19:11But if anyone, having hatred for his neighbor, will have lain in ambush for his life, and, rising up, will have struck him, and he will have died, and if he will have fled to one of the cities stated above,
Matthew 26:52Then Jesus said to him: “Put your sword back in its place. For all who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:2-12
Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say,… Read the whole commentary →