Exodus 21:12

WEB

¹²“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

KJV

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

BSB

¹²Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

FBV

¹²Anyone who hits and kills someone else must be executed.

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Extra References

Genesis 9:6

⁶Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Matthew 26:52

⁵²Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

Leviticus 24:17

¹⁷“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:30-31

³⁰“‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.

³¹“‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.

¹⁶“‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁹The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death. ²⁰If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died, ²¹or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

²²“‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, ²³or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm, ²⁴then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

Exodus 20:13

¹³“You shall not murder.

Deuteronomy 19:11-13

¹¹But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities; ¹²then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. ¹³Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.

2 Samuel 12:13

¹³David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin. You will not die.