Exodus 21:12
He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;
Literal 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 does not do these three for her, then she has gone out for nothing, without money.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man;
Exodus 20:13You do not murder.
Numbers 35:16And if he has struck him with an instrument of iron, and he dies, he [is] a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:11And when a man is hating his neighbor, and has lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and struck his life, and he has died, then he has fled to one of these cities,
Matthew 26:52Then Jesus says to him, “Turn back your sword to its place; for all who took the sword will perish 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 →