Éxodo 21:18

18 »Supongamos que dos hombres pelean, y uno golpea al otro con una piedra o con el puño, y la persona herida no muere pero tiene que guardar cama.

Éxodo 21:18 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 21:18

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.

Éxodo 21:18 In-Context

16 »Todo secuestrador será ejecutado, ya sea que encuentren a la víctima en su poder o que ya la haya vendido como esclavo.

17 »Cualquiera que deshonre
a su padre o a su madre será ejecutado.

18 »Supongamos que dos hombres pelean, y uno golpea al otro con una piedra o con el puño, y la persona herida no muere pero tiene que guardar cama.

19 Si después puede levantarse y salir caminando de la casa, aunque fuera con muletas, entonces no se castigará al agresor, pero estará obligado a compensar a su víctima por el trabajo perdido y a pagar por su recuperación.

20 »Si un hombre golpea a su esclavo o a su esclava con un palo y debido a ello el esclavo muere, el amo tendrá que ser castigado.