Exodus 21:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ If he rises again and walks about leaning upon his staff, then he that struck him shall be clear, except he must pay for the loss of his time and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ if he recovers and is able to walk around outside with a cane, then the one who hit him shouldn’t be punished, except to pay for the loss of time from work and to pay for his full recovery.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ if he gets up again and can walk outside on his staff, he who struck him will be innocent, but only if he makes sufficient restitution for his deeds and for the cost of the physicians.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit: yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

Exodus 21:19 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:29

May the bloodguilt fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge, or who has a defiling skin disease, or who holds a spindle, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks food!”

Exodus 21:18

“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

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.

Zechariah 8:4

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age.