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Personal Injury Laws

Exodus 21:18

In 11 translations

BSB
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,
KJV
¶ And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:another: or, his neighbour
WEB
“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;
ASV
And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;
LSV
And when men contend, and a man has struck his neighbor with a stone, or with the fist, and he does not die, but has fallen on the bed;
YLT
'And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed;
DBY
And if men dispute, and one strike the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but take to [his] bed,
DRC
If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
GNV
When men also striue together, and one smite another with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but lieth in bed,
JPS
And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;
LXXE
And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְכִֽי־יְרִיבֻ֣ן אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְהִכָּה־אִישׁ֙ אֶת־רֵעֵ֔הוּ בְּאֶ֖בֶן א֣וֹ בְאֶגְרֹ֑ף וְלֹ֥א יָמ֖וּת וְנָפַ֥ל לְמִשְׁכָּֽב׃
LXX-Br
Ἐὰν δὲ λοιδορῶνται δύο ἄνδρες, καὶ πατάξωσι τὸν πλησίον λίθῳ ἢ πυγμῇ, καὶ μὴ ἀποθάνῃ, κατακλιθῇ δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν κοίτην,

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 21:20If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.
  • Exodus 21:22If 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.
  • Exodus 2:13The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
  • Deuteronomy 25:11If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
  • Numbers 35:16–24If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another,…
  • 2 Samuel 14:6And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

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