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Text -- Exodus 21:12-27 (NET)
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Personal Injuries
21:12 “Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death .
21:13 But if he does not do it with premeditation , but it happens by accident , then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee .
21:14 But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly , you will take him even from my altar that he may die .
21:15 “Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death .
21:16 “Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death .
21:17 “Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death .
21:18 “If men fight , and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die , but must remain in bed ,
21:19 and then if he gets up and walks about outside on his staff , then the one who struck him is innocent , except he must pay for the injured person’s loss of time and see to it that he is fully healed .
21:20 “If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow , he will surely be punished .
21:21 However , if the injured servant survives one or two days , the owner will not be punished , for he has suffered the loss.
21:22 “If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely , but there is no serious injury , he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides .
21:23 But if there is serious injury , then you will give a life for a life ,
21:24 eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot ,
21:25 burn for burn , wound for wound , bruise for bruise .
21:26 “If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye .
21:27 If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant , he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
PUNISHMENTS |
EZEKIEL, 2 |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
DAUGHTER |
Israel |
COVENANT, BOOK OF THE |
PAPYRUS |
SABBATICAL YEAR |
PENTATEUCH, 3 |
PENTATEUCH, 2B |
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 3-4 |
Crucifixion |
Book |
Revelation |
LAW OF MOSES |
MURDER |
Assault and Battery |
Homicide |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Exo 21:12; Exo 21:12; Exo 21:12; Exo 21:12; Exo 21:13; Exo 21:13; Exo 21:14; Exo 21:15; Exo 21:16; Exo 21:16; Exo 21:16; Exo 21:17; Exo 21:18; Exo 21:19; Exo 21:19; Exo 21:19; Exo 21:19; Exo 21:19; Exo 21:20; Exo 21:20; Exo 21:20; Exo 21:21; Exo 21:21; Exo 21:21; Exo 21:22; Exo 21:22; Exo 21:25; Exo 21:26; Exo 21:26; Exo 21:26; Exo 21:27
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NET Notes: Exo 21:13 Heb “and God brought into his hand.” The death is unintended, its circumstances outside human control.
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NET Notes: Exo 21:14 The word עָרְמָה (’ormah) is problematic. It could mean with prior intent, which would be connected wi...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:15 This is the same construction that was used in v. 12, but here there is no mention of the parents’ death. This attack, then, does not lead to th...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:16 Literally “and he is found in his hand” (KJV and ASV both similar), being not yet sold.
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NET Notes: Exo 21:17 The form is a Piel participle from קָלַל (qalal), meaning in Qal “be light,” in Piel “treat lightly, c...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:19 The word appears to be the infinitive from the verb “to sit” with a meaning of “his sitting down”; some suggest it is from the...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:21 This last clause is a free paraphrase of the Hebrew, “for he is his money” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “his property.” It seems that i...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:25 The text now introduces the Lex Talionis with cases that were not likely to have applied to the situation of the pregnant woman. See K. Luke, “E...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:26 Interestingly, the verb used here for “let him go” is the same verb throughout the first part of the book for “release” of the...
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