Exodus 21:15
Good News Translation
"Whoever hits his father or his mother is to be put to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever strikes father or mother shall be put to death.

Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for attacking your father or mother.

New American Bible
Whoever strikes father or mother shall be put to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: . . .

Deuteronomy 27:24 Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Proverbs 30:11,17 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. . . .

1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Context
Personal Injury Laws
14If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die. 15He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.16He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:14
If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.

Exodus 21:16
He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:14
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