Exodus 21:18

If men will have quarreled, and one of them has struck his neighbor with a stone or a fist, and he does not die, but lies in bed,

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In The King James Version

And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

In Context

17Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother shall die a death.

19if he gets up again and can walk outside on his staff, he who struck him will be innocent, but only if he makes sufficient restitution for his deeds and for the cost of the physicians.

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Cross References

Exodus 2:13And going out the next day, he spotted two Hebrews quarrelling violently. And he said to him who was causing the injury, “Why do you strike your neighbor?”

Exodus 21:22If men will have quarreled, and one of them has struck a pregnant woman, and as a result she miscarries, but she herself survives, he shall be subject to as much damage as the husband of the woman shall petition from him, or as arbitrators shall judge.

Numbers 35:17If he will have thrown a stone, and he who has been struck lies dead, then he shall be punished similarly.

2 Samuel 14:6And your handmaid had two sons. And they quarreled against one another in the field. And there was no one there who would be able to stop them. And one struck the other, and killed him.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:13-22

12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to… Read the whole commentary →

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