Exodus 21:12
New International Version
“Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.

New Living Translation
“Anyone who assaults and kills another person must be put to death.

English Standard Version
“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

Berean Standard Bible
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

King James Bible
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

New King James Version
“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

New American Standard Bible
“He who strikes someone so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.

NASB 1995
“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

NASB 1977
“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

Legacy Standard Bible
“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

Amplified Bible
“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies must be put to death.

Christian Standard Bible
“Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.

American Standard Version
He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He who strikes a man and the man dies, shall certainly be killed.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if any man smite another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.

Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for murder.

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

English Revised Version
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall surely be put to death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Whoever strikes someone and kills him must be put to death.

Good News Translation
"Whoever hits someone and kills him is to be put to death.

International Standard Version
"Whoever strikes a man so that he dies is certainly to be put to death.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.

Literal Standard Version
He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;

Majority Standard Bible
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

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

NET Bible
"Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

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

New Heart English Bible
"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

Webster's Bible Translation
He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall be surely put to death.

World English Bible
“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

Young's Literal Translation
'He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

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Context
Personal Injury Laws
12Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death. 13If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.…

Cross References
Matthew 26:52
"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him. "For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

Genesis 9:5
And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.

Exodus 21:11
If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.

Leviticus 24:17
And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:16
If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.


Treasury of Scripture

He that smites a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.

Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Leviticus 24:17
And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

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Exodus 21
1. Laws for men servants
5. For the servant whose ear is bored
7. For women servants
12. For manslaughter
16. For kidnappers
17. For cursers of parents
18. For smiters
22. For a hurt by chance
28. For an ox that gores
33. For him who is an occasion of harm














(12-14) He that smiteth a man, so that he die.--Homicide had been broadly and generally forbidden in the sixth commandment. But something more was necessary. Laws are for the most part inoperative unless they are enforced by penalties; and for every case of homicide the same penalty would not be fitting. Accordingly we have here, first, the assignment of the death penalty for homicide of the first degree, i.e., murder; and secondly, the provision of a refuge for homicide of the second degree, i.e., manslaughter, or death by misadventure. The death penalty for murder had already received Divine sanction in the injunctions given to Noah (Genesis 9:6). Tradition, backed up by conscience, had made it an almost universal law. The Sinaitic legislation adopted the law into the national code, and lent it additional force by the proviso, which we know to have been carried out in practice (1Kings 2:28-34), that the

Murderer was even to be torn from God's altar, if he took refuge there.

Verses 12-14. - Homicide. Ver. 12 reiterates the Sixth Commandment, and adds to it a temporal penalty - "he shall surely be put to death." The substance of this law had already been given to Noah in the words, "Whoso sheddeth man' s blood, by man shall his blood be shed" (Genesis 9:6). Real murder, with deliberate intent, was under no circumstances to be pardoned. The murderer was even to be torn from the altar, if he took refuge there, and relentlessly punished (ver. 14). See the case of Joab (1 Kings 2:28-34). But, if a man happened suddenly upon his enemy, without having sought the opportunity, and slew him (ver. 13), then the case was one not of murder, but at most of manslaughter, or possibly of justifiable homicide. No legal penalty was assigned to such offences. They were left to the rude justice of established custom, which required "the avenger of blood" to visit them with due retribution. According to the general practice of the Eastern nations, he might either insist on life for life or take a money compensation. With this custom, deeply ingrained into the minds of the Oriental people, the law did not meddle. It was content to interpose between the avenger of blood and his victim the chance of reaching an asylum. Places were appointed, whither the shedder of blood might flee, and where he might be safe until his cause was tried before the men of his own city (Numbers 35:22-25), and afterwards, if the judgment were in his favour. Some particular part of the camp was probably made an asylum in the wilderness.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Whoever strikes
מַכֵּ֥ה (mak·kêh)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5221: To strike

and kills
וָמֵ֖ת (wā·mêṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

a man
אִ֛ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

must surely
מ֥וֹת (mō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

be put to death.
יוּמָֽת׃ (yū·māṯ)
Verb - Hofal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill


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