‘Your servant had two sons. They were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
Exodus 21:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: |
‘Your servant had two sons. They were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, ‘Why are you attacking your neighbour? ’
if he can later get up and walk around outside leaning on his staff, then the one who struck him will be exempt from punishment. Nevertheless, he must pay for his lost work time and provide for his complete recovery.
‘When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse, the owner must be punished.
‘When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.
‘If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,