Exodus 21:19

Easy To Read Version

If the man was hurt and must stay in bed for some time, then the man who hurt him must support him. The man who hurt him must pay for the loss of his time. The man must support him until he is completely healed.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:29

Joab and his family are responsible for this, and all his family are to be blamed. I hope many troubles will come to Joab’s family. I hope the people in his family will be sick with leprosy, and crippled, and killed in war, and not have enough food to eat!”

Exodus 21:18

“Two men might argue and one might hit the other with a rock or with his fist. {How should you punish that man?} If the man who was hurt is not killed, then the man who hurt him should not be killed.

Exodus 21:20

“Sometimes people beat their men or women slaves. If the slave dies after he is beaten, then the killer must be punished.

Zechariah 8:4

The Lord All-Powerful says, “Old men and women will again be seen in the public places in Jerusalem. People will live so long that they will need their walking sticks.