Exodus 21:12
He that smiteth a man, and will slay him, die he by death; (He who striketh a man, and killeth him, shall be put to death;)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 9:5for I shall seek the blood of your lives, of the hand of all unreasonable beasts and of the hand of man, of the hand of man and of his brother, I shall seek the life of man. (for I shall seek justice for any spilt blood of your lives, from any unreasoning beast, and from any man, yea, from any man, and from any of his brothers, I shall seek their life if any of them take the life of someone.)
Exodus 20:13Thou shalt not slay. (Thou shalt not kill.)
Numbers 35:16If any man smiteth a man with (a thing of) iron, and he that is smitten is dead, the smiter shall be guilty of manslaying, and he shall die. (If anyone striketh someone with a thing of iron, and he who is struck dieth, the striker shall be guilty of manslaughter, and he must be put to death.)
Deuteronomy 19:11Forsooth if any man hateth his neighbour, and setteth ambushes to his life, and riseth up against him privily, and smiteth him, and he is dead (or and he dieth), and the manslayer fleeth to one of the foresaid cities,
Matthew 26:52Then Jesus said to him, Turn thy sword into his place (or Return thy sword into its place); for all that take (up a) sword, shall 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 →