◄ Exodus 21:12 ►
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Good News Translation
"Whoever hits someone and kills him is to be put to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever strikes a person mortally shall be put to death.

Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for murder.

New American Bible
Whoever strikes someone a mortal blow must be put to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

Exodus 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.

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

Leviticus 24:17 He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.

Numbers 35:16-24,30,31 If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die. . . .

Deuteronomy 19:11-13 But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid, . . .

2 Samuel 12:13 And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

Matthew 26:52 Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Context
Personal Injury Laws
12He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.13But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:52
Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Genesis 9:5
For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

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

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.

Exodus 21:11
If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

Leviticus 24:17
He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.

Numbers 35:16
If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.

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

Deuteronomy 19:11
But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid,

Deuteronomy 27:24
Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Exodus 21:11
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