Exodus 21:12
Anyone who hits and kills someone else must be executed.
Free Bible 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 doesn't give her these three things, she is free to leave without paying anything.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5If your blood is shed by any animal, I will call it to account; and if your blood is shed by any person, I will call that person to account.
Exodus 20:13You must not murder.
Numbers 35:16But if anyone deliberately hits someone with something made of iron and kills them, that person is a murderer and must be executed.
Deuteronomy 19:11On the other hand, if a man hates someone, hides in wait, and attacks and kills them, and then the killer runs to one of the sanctuary towns,
Matthew 26:52But Jesus told him, “Put your sword away. Everyone who fights with the sword will die 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 →