Exodus 21:18 BSB — MannaFest

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14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְכִֽי־	ve.khi-	and if	H3588 →
יְרִיבֻ֣ן	ye.ri.Vun	they will quarrel !	H7378 →
אֲנָשִׁ֔ים	'a.na.Shim	men	H582 →
וְהִכָּה־	ve.hi.kah-	and he will strike	H5221 →
אִישׁ֙	'ish	anyone	H376 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
רֵעֵ֔הוּ	re.'E.hu	neighbor his	H7453 →
בְּאֶ֖בֶן	be.'E.ven	with a stone	H68 →
א֣וֹ	'o	or	H176 →
בְאֶגְרֹ֑ף	ve.'eg.Rof	with a fist	H106 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יָמ֖וּת	ya.Mut	he will die	H4191 →
וְנָפַ֥ל	ve.na.Fal	and he will fall	H5307 →
לְמִשְׁכָּֽב׃	le.mish.Kav	to a bed	H4904 →

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Through
Exodus 21:22
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 22:18–19
  Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.
- Exodus 21:30
  If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
Through
Exodus 2:13
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
leads to
- Acts 7:26–28
  The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
Through
Exodus 21:20
If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 19:21
  You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
- Proverbs 29:19
  A servant cannot be corrected by words alone; though he understands, he will not respond.
- Genesis 4:24
  If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
- Numbers 35:30–33
  If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a…
- Exodus 21:26–27
  If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Exodus 21:20If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.Deuteronomy 25:11If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,Exodus 21:22If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.Numbers 35:16–24If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.Exodus 2:13The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”2 Samuel 14:6And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.Numbers 35:17Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

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