Crimes against Persons

Exodus 21:12, 15–30

Biblical Period

12He who fatally strikes a man shall be put to death. [ . . . ]

15He who strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

16He who kidnaps a man—whether he has sold him or is still holding him—shall be put to death.

17He who insultsa his father or his mother shall be put to death.

18When men quarrel and one strikes the other with stone or…

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