Exodus 21:18
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What does Exodus 21:18 mean?
And if men strive together
Quarrel and fight, and wrestle with and box one another:
and one smite another with a stone;
which lying near him he might take up, and in his passion throw
it at his antagonist:
or with his fist;
with his double fist, as we express it, with his hand closed,
that it might come with the greater force, and give the greater
blow:
and he die not, but keepeth his bed;
does not die with the blow of the stone or fist, yet receives so
much damage by it that he is obliged to take to his bed; or, as
the Targum of Jerusalem paraphrases it, is cast on the bed sick;
or, as the Targum of Jonathan, falls into a disease, as a fever,
or the like, through the force of the blow, so that he is
confined to his room and to his bed.
