Exodus 21:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 4:15 : 15 And the LORD said to him, Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.
  • Gen 4:24 : 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 If a man strikes the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he knocks out his male servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
  • Num 35:19 : 19 The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.
  • Num 35:30-33 : 30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the testimony of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. 31 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death. 32 And you shall take no ransom for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
  • Deut 19:21 : 21 Your eye shall not pity; but life shall be 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 understands, he will not respond.
  • Isa 58:3-4 : 3 Why have we fasted, they say, and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure and exact all your labors. 4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high.
  • Rom 13:4 : 4 For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who does evil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:21-32
    12 verses
    82%

    21However, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

    22If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished according as the woman's husband imposes upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

    23But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,

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

    25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

    26If a man strikes the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27And if he knocks out his male servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

    28If an ox gores a man or a woman, and they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.

    29But if the ox was known to gore in time past, and its owner has been warned, and he has not kept it in, and it kills a man or woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

    30If there is imposed on him a sum of money, then he shall pay to redeem his life whatever is imposed on him.

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

    32If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

  • Exod 21:14-19
    6 verses
    82%

    14But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

    15And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

    16He who kidnaps a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

    17And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

    18If men contend with each other, and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed,

    19if he rises again and walks outside with his staff, then he who struck him shall be acquitted. He shall only pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing.

  • Exod 21:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.

    12He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

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

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

    18Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon, by which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

    4If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne 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 plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

    6then his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.

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

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

    14You shall beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

  • Exod 21:2
    74%

    2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free, without paying anything.

  • Deut 25:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his fault, by a number of strokes.

    3Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed; lest, if he should exceed and beat him with many more stripes, then your brother should appear vile to you.

  • Lev 24:17
    73%

    17And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:21
    73%

    21Or in enmity strikes him with his hand, so that he dies, he who struck him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meets him.

  • Prov 29:21
    73%

    21He who delicately brings up his servant from childhood shall have him as a son in the end.

  • Lev 19:20
    73%

    20And whoever lies carnally with a woman who is a bondmaid, betrothed to a 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 has committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

  • Lev 24:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

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

    21And he who kills a beast shall restore it: and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Matt 21:35
    72%

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

  • Deut 15:17
    72%

    17Then you shall take an awl, and pierce it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also unto your maidservant, you shall do likewise.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35If one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money from it; and the dead ox they shall also divide.

    36Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Exod 22:2
    71%

    2If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodshed for him.

  • Exod 22:14
    71%

    14If a man borrows anything from his neighbor and it is broken or dies, with its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Deut 21:18
    71%

    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

  • Job 31:13
    71%

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

  • Lev 20:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9For everyone that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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