Exodus 21:20

Overview - Exodus 21
Laws for men servants.
For the servant whose ear is bored.
For women servants.
12 For manslaughter.
16 For stealers of men.
17 For cursers of parents.
18 For smiters.
22 For a hurt by chance.
28 For an ox that gores.
33 For him that is an occasion of harm.
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Exodus 21:20  (King James Version)
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
 


smite
Exodus 21:26 Exodus 21:27 ; Deuteronomy 19:21 ; Proverbs 29:19 ; Isaiah 58:3 Isaiah 58:4

he shall
Genesis 9:6 ; Numbers 35:30-33

punished
Hebrew avenged.
Genesis 4:15 Genesis 4:24 ; Numbers 35:19 ; Romans 13:4