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Exodus 21:15 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. "
Exodus 21:15
Verse in Context
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And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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Exodus 21:1
"Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before"
Exodus 21:2
"If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing."
Exodus 21:3
"If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out"
Exodus 21:4
"If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself."
Exodus 21:5
"And 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 unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever."
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