Exodus 21:15

“Whoever strikes ¹  his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.

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

"Anyone who strikes father or mother must be put to death.

"If someone hits father or mother, the penalty is death.

Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

Whoever strikes father or mother shall be put to death.

"And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

“Whoever strikes ¹  his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

¹ sn This is the same construction that was used in v. 12, but here there is no mention of the parents’ death. This attack, then, does not lead to their death – if he killed one of them then v. 12 would be the law. S. R. Driver says that the severity of the penalty was in accord with the high view of parents (Exodus, 216).