Exodus 21:12
He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
In Context
11And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require; At the hand of every beast will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man`s brother, will I require the life of man.
Exodus 20:13Thou shalt not kill.
Numbers 35:16But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:11But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so that he dieth, and he flee into one of these cities;
Matthew 26:52Then saith Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they 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 →