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Exodus 21:19 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed. "
Exodus 21:19
Verse in Context
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17 “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18 “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;
19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
20 “If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
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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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