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Exodus 21:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. "
Exodus 21:15
Verse in Context
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13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
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Exodus 21:1
"“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:"
Exodus 21:2
"“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything."
Exodus 21:3
"If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him."
Exodus 21:4
"If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself."
Exodus 21:5
"But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’"
Exodus 21:6
"then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever."
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