VERSE STUDY • KJV

Exodus 21:12

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

Read it in 5 translations

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

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

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

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

‘He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10 If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

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

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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