Esodo 21:15

15 Chi percuote suo padre o sua madre dev’esser messo a morte.

Esodo 21:15 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 21:15

And he that smiteth his father or his mother
With his fist, or with a stick, or cane, or such thing, though they died not with the blow, yet it occasioned any wound, or caused a bruise, or the part smitten black and blue, or left any print of the blow; for, as Jarchi says, the party was not guilty, less by smiting there was a bruise, or weal, made, or any mark or scar: but if so it was, then he

shall be surely put to death;
the Targum of Jonathan adds, with the suffocation of a napkin; and so Jarchi says with strangling; the manner of which was this, the person was sunk into a dunghill up to his knees, and two persons girt his neck with a napkin or towel until he expired. This crime was made capital, to show the heinousness of it, how detestable it was to God, and in order to deter from it.

Esodo 21:15 In-Context

13 Se non gli ha teso agguato, ma Dio gliel’ha fatto cader sotto mano, io ti stabilirò un luogo dov’ei si possa rifugiare.

14 Se alcuno con premeditazione uccide il suo prossimo mediante insidia, tu lo strapperai anche dal mio altare, per farlo morire.

15 Chi percuote suo padre o sua madre dev’esser messo a morte.

16 Chi ruba un uomo sia che l’abbia venduto o che gli sia trovato nelle mani dev’esser messo a morte.

17 Chi maledice suo padre o sua madre dev’esser messo a morte.