Exodus 21:18-19

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, ¹  21:19 and then ²  if he gets up and walks about ³  outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay ⁴  for the injured person’s ⁵  loss of time ⁶  and see to it that he is fully healed.

[21:18]  ¹ tn Heb “falls to bed.”

[21:19]  ² tn “and then” has been supplied.

[21:19]  ³ tn The verb is a Hitpael perfect with vav (ו) consecutive; it follows the sequence of the imperfect before it – “if he gets up and walks about.” This is proof of recovery.

[21:19]  ⁴ tn The imperfect tense carries a nuance of obligatory imperfect because this is binding on the one who hit him.

[21:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the injured person) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:19]  ⁶ tn 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 verb “to rest” with a meaning “cease.” In either case the point in the context must mean compensation is due for the time he was down.