Exodus 21:12
And if any man smite another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.
Brenton Septuagint
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 will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man.
Exodus 20:13+ 20:13 Mat. 5. 27. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Numbers 35:16And if he should smite him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:11But if there should be in thee a man hating his neighbour, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,
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 →