Exodus 21:20

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And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

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  • Gen 4:15 : 15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, venance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
  • Gen 4:24 : 24 If Cain shall be avend sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the ima of God made he man.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
  • Num 35:19 : 19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
  • Num 35:30-33 : 30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. 31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. 32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
  • Deut 19:21 : 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • Prov 29:19 : 19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
  • Isa 58:3-4 : 3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
  • Rom 13:4 : 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:21-32
    12 verses
    82%

    21Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

    22If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

    23And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

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

    25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

    26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

    28If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

    29But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

    30If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

    31Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

    32If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

  • Exod 21:14-19
    6 verses
    82%

    14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

    15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

    16And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

    17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

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

    19If 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.

  • Exod 21:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

    12He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

  • Num 35:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    18Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

    4If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

    5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

    6Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

    7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

    14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

  • Exod 21:2
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    2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

  • Deut 25:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

    3Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

  • Lev 24:17
    73%

    17And he that kilth any man shall surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:21
    73%

    21Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

  • Prov 29:21
    73%

    21He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

  • Lev 19:20
    73%

    20And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Deut 21:22
    72%

    22And if a man have committed a sin worthy of ath, and he be to be put to ath, and thou hang him on a tree:

  • Lev 24:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19And if a man cause a bmish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

    20Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a bmish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

    21And he that kilth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that kilth a man, he shall be put to death.

  • Matt 21:35
    72%

    35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

  • Deut 15:17
    72%

    17Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

    36Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

  • Exod 22:2
    71%

    2If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

  • Exod 22:14
    71%

    14And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

  • Deut 21:18
    71%

    18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

  • Job 31:13
    71%

    13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

  • Lev 20:9-10
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    9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

    10And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.