Exodus 21:12
Whosoever striketh a man and killeth him, being killed he shall be killed.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
In Context
11And if these three he doth not perform to her, he shall release her freely without money.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And also your blood of your lives will I require, from every beast will I require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of the man who sheddeth the blood of his brother will I require the life of man.
Exodus 20:13Thou shalt not kill life. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not testify against thy neighbour a testimony of falsehood.
Numbers 35:16But if he hath smitten him with a weapon of iron and killed him, he is a murderer; and the murderer is to be surely put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:11But if a man bear hatred to his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and destroy his life, and he die, and he 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 →