Verse 20
Exodus 21:20
American Standard Version
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And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/כִֽי יַכֶּה֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶת עַבְדּ֜/וֹ א֤וֹ אֶת אֲמָת/וֹ֙ בַּ/שֵּׁ֔בֶט וּ/מֵ֖ת תַּ֣חַת יָד֑/וֹ נָקֹ֖ם יִנָּקֵֽם
English Translation
If a man strikes his slave or his maidservant with a rod and they die under his hand, he shall surely be avenged.
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Chapter 21 Context
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Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
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If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for...
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If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out w...
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If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be...
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But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out...
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then his master shall bring him unto God (Elohim), and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door...
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And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
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If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: t...
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And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
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If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminis...
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And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.
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He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.
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And if a man lie not in wait, but God (Elohim) deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee...
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And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from...
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And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
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And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put t...
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And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep...
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if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shal...
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And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely...
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Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
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And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm f...
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But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him...
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And if he smite out his man-servant`s tooth, or his maid-servant`s tooth, he shall let him go free f...
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And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not...
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But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath no...
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If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is la...
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Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done u...
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If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given unto their master thirty shekel...
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And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fal...
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the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead [b...
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And if one man`s ox hurt another`s, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide t...
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Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in, he s...
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