EX 21:20-21 Assault or Murder Personal Slave Law
EX 21:20-21 Assault or Murder Personal Slave Law
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Scripture
Scripture
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
Speaker: YHWH | Bible Version: TCMV
Law
Law
If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
If his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished,
Judgement
Judgement
If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
If his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
Biblical Example
Biblical Example
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Present Day Example
Present Day Example
This is a present day example of the Assault or Murder Personal Slave Law being disobeyed.
On October 20, 1669, the Virginia Colonial Assembly enacted a law that removed criminal penalties for enslavers who killed enslaved people resisting authority. The assembly justified the law on the grounds that “the obstinacy of many [enslaved people] cannot be suppressed by other than violent means.” The law provided that an enslaver's killing of an enslaved person could not constitute murder because the “premeditated malice” element of murder could not be formed against one’s own property.
Source: Equal Justice Initiative
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