KJVAnd if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;
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,
`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;
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,
Exodus — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
1. Now these are the judgments. Both passages contain the same appointment, viz., that as to the Hebrews slavery must end at the seventh year; for God would have the children of Abraham, although obliged to sell themselves, to differ from heathen and ordinary slaves. Their enfranchisement is, therefore, enjoined,…