Exodus 21:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

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  • Gen 4:15 : 15 And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.
  • Gen 4:24 : 24 If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye. 27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.
  • Num 35:19 : 19 He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.
  • Num 35:30-33 : 30 Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough. 31 Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death. 32 And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest. 33 So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
  • Deut 19:21 : 21 Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • Prov 29:19 : 19 A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.
  • Isa 58:3-4 : 3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts; 4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
  • Rom 13:4 : 4 For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:21-32
    12 verses
    82%

    21But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

    22If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.

    23But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,

    24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

    25Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.

    26If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

    27Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

    28If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.

    29But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.

    30If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.

    31If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.

    32If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

  • Exod 21:14-19
    6 verses
    82%

    14But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

    15Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

    16Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

    17Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

    18If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

    19If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.

  • Exod 21:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

    12He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

  • Num 35:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

    17Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

    18Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

  • Exod 21:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

    4If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

    5But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

    6Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

    7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

    14Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.

  • Exod 21:2
    74%

    2If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

  • Deut 25:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.

    3He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

  • Lev 24:17
    73%

    17And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

  • Num 35:21
    73%

    21Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

  • Prov 29:21
    73%

    21If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

  • Lev 19:20
    73%

    20If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • Deut 21:22
    72%

    22If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

  • Lev 24:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;

    20Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.

    21He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • Matt 21:35
    72%

    35And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

  • Deut 15:17
    72%

    17Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.

    36But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

  • Exod 22:2
    71%

    2If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.

  • Exod 22:14
    71%

    14If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.

  • Deut 21:18
    71%

    18If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

  • Job 31:13
    71%

    13If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

  • Lev 20:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

    10And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.