◄ Exodus 21:20 ►
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Good News Translation
"If a slave owner takes a stick and beats his slave, whether male or female, and the slave dies on the spot, the owner is to be punished.

New Revised Standard Version
When a slaveowner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished.

Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for beating to death any of your slaves.

New American Bible
When someone strikes his male or female slave with a rod so that the slave dies under his hand, the act shall certainly be avenged.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

smite

Exodus 21:26,27 If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out. . . .

Deuteronomy 19:21 Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Proverbs 29:19 A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth what thou sayest, and will not answer.

Isaiah 58:3,4 Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors. . . .

he shall

Genesis 9:6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Numbers 35:30-33 The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man. . . .

punished.

Genesis 4:15,24 And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him. . . .

Numbers 35:19 The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.

Romans 13:4 For he is God's minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is God's minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil.

Context
Personal Injury Laws
…19If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians. 20He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.21But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:19
If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

Exodus 21:21
But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

Exodus 21:19
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