Exodus 21:12
He that strikes down an ish, so that the ish die, shall be surely put to death.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 perform these three unto her, then shall she go out free without kesef.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And surely your dahm of your nefeshot will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the yad haAdam; at the hand of every manʼs brother will I require the nefesh haAdam. 1
Exodus 20:13Thou shalt not murder. 14Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15Thou shalt not steal. 16Thou shalt not bear ed sheker against thy neighbor.
Numbers 35:16And if he strike him with keli barzel, so that he die, he is a rotze'ach; the rotze'ach shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:11But if any ish hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these towns;
Matthew 26:52Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Return your cherev into its place; for all who take 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 →