Exodus 21:20

World English Bible (2000)

"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 Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
  • Gen 4:24 : 24 If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
  • Num 35:19 : 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
  • Num 35:30-33 : 30 "'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he 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 "'You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
  • Deut 19:21 : 21 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • Prov 29:19 : 19 A servant can't be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
  • Isa 58:3-4 : 3 'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors. 4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
  • Rom 13:4 : 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:21-32
    12 verses
    82%

    21 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

    22 "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.

    23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

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

    25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

    26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

    28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

    29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

    30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

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

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

  • Exod 21:14-19
    6 verses
    82%

    14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

    15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

    16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

    17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

    18 "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

    19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

  • Exod 21:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

    12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

  • Num 35:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16 "'But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

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

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

    6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

    7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

    14 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

  • Exod 21:2
    74%

    2 "If 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%

    2 and 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 wickedness, by number.

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

  • Lev 24:17
    73%

    17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:21
    73%

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

  • Prov 29:21
    73%

    21 He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

  • Lev 19:20
    73%

    20 "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Deut 21:22
    72%

    22 If a man have 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%

    19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

    20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

    21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Matt 21:35
    72%

    35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

  • Deut 15:17
    72%

    17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35 "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

    36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Exod 22:2
    71%

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

  • Exod 22:14
    71%

    14 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Deut 21:18
    71%

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

  • Job 31:13
    71%

    13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

  • Lev 20:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 "'For everyone who 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.

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