Exodus 21:12
He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
In Context
11If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.
Exodus 20:13Thou shalt not kill.
Numbers 35:16If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck : he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.
Deuteronomy 19:11But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid,
Matthew 26:52Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with 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 →