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Księga Wyjścia 21:20

Jeśli ktoś pobije kijem swojego niewolnika lub niewolnicę tak, że umrze on lub ona pod jego ręką, musi ponieść karę.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Master;   Music;   Scourging;   Servant;   The Topic Concordance - Recompense/restitution;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Master;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Murder;   Sexuality, Human;   Slave, Slavery;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Slave;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Murder;   Punishments;   Slave;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Club;   Economic Life;   Exodus, Book of;   Hammurabi;   Pentateuch;   Rod, Staff;   Slave/servant;   Vengeance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Covenant, Book of the;   Ethics;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Sin;   Slave, Slavery;   Stranger;   Ten Commandments;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Scourge;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Punishments;   Slave;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cruel;   Die;   Homicide;   Maid;   Rod;   Slave;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Capital Punishment;   Commandments, the 613;   Hammurabi;   Slaves and Slavery;   Yudan;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Jeźliby zaś uderzył kto niewolnika swego, albo niewolnicę swoję kijem, i umarliby w ręku jego, koniecznie karanie odniesie;
Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Też jesliby kto sługę swego abo służebnicę kijem zbił, a śmierć by nań zarazem przypadła, taki będzie skaran.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
A jeśli ktoś pobije kijem swojego niewolnika, albo swoją służebnicę i umrze pod jego ręką to niech to będzie pomszczone.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Jeźliby zaś uderzył kto niewolnika swego, albo niewolnicę swoję kijem, i umarliby w ręku jego, koniecznie karanie odniesie;
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Jeśli zaś ktoś uderzy kijem swego niewolnika lub swoją niewolnicę tak, że umrą pod jego ręką, musi ponieść karę;
Biblia Warszawska
Jeżeli ktoś pobije kijem swojego niewolnika albo swoją niewolnicę tak, że umrą pod jego ręką, winien być surowo ukarany.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

smite: Exodus 21:26, Exodus 21:27, Deuteronomy 19:21, Proverbs 29:19, Isaiah 58:3, Isaiah 58:4

he shall: Genesis 9:6, Numbers 35:30-33

punished: Heb. avenged, Genesis 4:15, Genesis 4:24, Numbers 35:19, Romans 13:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:13 - General Exodus 21:18 - a stone Leviticus 19:20 - she shall be scourged Deuteronomy 17:8 - between blood Job 31:13 - the cause

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if a man smite his servant or his maid with a rod,.... A Canaanitish servant or maid, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi; and that only with a rod for the correction of them, and not with a sword or any such destroying weapon, which would seem as though he intended to kill, yet nevertheless:

and he die under his hand; immediately, while he is smiting or beating him or her, on the same day, as the above Targum interprets it:

he shall be surely punished; or condemned to the punishment of being slain with the sword, as the said Targum and Jarchi explain it: this law was made to deter masters from using severity and cruelty towards their servants.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Jewish authorities appear to be right in referring this law, like those in Exodus 21:26-27, Exodus 21:32, to foreign slaves (see Leviticus 25:44-46). The protection here afforded to the life of a slave may seem to us but a slight one; but it is the very earliest trace of such protection in legislation, and it stands in strong and favorable contrast with the old laws of Greece, Rome, and other nations. If the slave survived the castigation a day or two, the master did not become amenable to the law, because the loss of the slave was accounted, under the circumstances, as a punishment.


 
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