Exodus 21:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ “When individuals quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or fist so that the injured party, though not dead, is confined to bed

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ If men quarrel and one strikes another with a stone or with his fist and he does not die but keeps his bed,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;

Common English Bible

¹⁸ When two people are fighting and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist so that he is in bed for a while but doesn’t die—

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ If men will have quarreled, and one of them has struck his neighbor with a stone or a fist, and he does not die, but lies in bed,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

Exodus 21:18 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:6

Your servant had two sons, and they fought with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.

Exodus 2:13

When he went out the next day, he saw two Hebrews fighting, and he said to the one who was in the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow Hebrew?”

Exodus 21:17

“Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:19

but recovers and walks around outside with the help of a staff, then the assailant shall be free of liability, except to pay for the loss of time and to arrange for full recovery.

Exodus 21:20

“When a slaveowner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished.

Exodus 21:22

“When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage and yet no further harm follows, the one responsible shall be fined what the woman’s husband demands, paying as much as the judges determine.

Deuteronomy 25:11

“If men get into a fight with one another and the wife of one intervenes to rescue her husband from the grip of his opponent by reaching out and seizing his genitals,