¹⁸ If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

²⁰ If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

¹³ And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother?

²² If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.

¹⁶ But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

¹⁷ Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

¹⁸ Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

¹⁹ He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

²⁰ If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;

²¹ Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

²² But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

²³ Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil:

²⁴ Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

¹¹ If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;

⁶ And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.