Exodus 21:18
New Revised Standard Version
When individuals quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or fist so that the injured party, though not dead, is confined to bed,

Contemporary English Version
Suppose two of you are arguing, and you hit the other with either a rock or your fist, without causing a fatal injury. If the victim has to stay in bed,

New American Bible
When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, not mortally, but enough to put him in bed,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

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If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

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Exodus 21:22 If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.

Exodus 2:13 And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?

Deuteronomy 25:11 If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against the other, and the other's wife willing to deliver her husband out of the hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the secrets,

2 Samuel 14:6 And thy handmaid had two sons: and they quarrelled with each other in the field, and there was none to part them: and the one struck the other, and slew him.

another or his neighbour.

Exodus 21:20 He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

Numbers 35:16-24 If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die. . . .

Context
Personal Injury Laws
17He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death. 18If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:19If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:17
He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

Exodus 21:19
If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

Exodus 21:17
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