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Exodus 21:20
Exodus 21:20 is verse 20 of Exodus chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.
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.
World English Bible
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
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Exodus 21:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,
19 then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.
20 If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.
21 However, if the servant gets up after a day or two, the owner shall not be punished, since the servant is his property.
22 If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 21:26If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
Exodus 21:27And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
Deuteronomy 19:21You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
Proverbs 29:19A servant cannot be corrected by words alone; though he understands, he will not respond.
Isaiah 58:3“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
Isaiah 58:4You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
Numbers 35:30If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.
Numbers 35:31You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:32Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
Numbers 35:33Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Genesis 4:15“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
Genesis 4:24If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
Numbers 35:19The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
Romans 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.