Exodus 21:12
He that smiteth a man, and he die, shall dye the death.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 do not these three vnto her, the shall she go out free, paying no money.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5For surely I will require your blood, wherein your liues are: at the hand of euery beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, euen at the hand of a mans brother will I require the life of man.
Exodus 20:13Thou shalt not kill.
Numbers 35:16And if one smite another with an instrument of yron that hee die, hee is a murtherer, and the murtherer shall die the death.
Deuteronomy 19:11But if a man hate his neighbour, and lay waite for him, and rise against him, and smite any man that he die, and flee vnto any of these cities,
Matthew 26:52Then sayde Iesus vnto him, Put vp thy sworde into his place: for all that take the sworde, shall perish with the sworde.
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 →