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Exodus 22:24

Context
NETBible

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless. 1 

XREF

Job 27:13-15; Job 31:23; Ps 69:24; Ps 76:7; Ps 78:63,64; Ps 90:11; Ps 109:9; Jer 15:8; Jer 18:21; La 5:3; Na 1:6; Lu 6:38; Ro 2:5-9; Heb 10:31

NET © Notes

sn The punishment will follow the form of talionic justice, an eye for an eye, in which the punishment matches the crime. God will use invading armies (“sword” is a metonymy of adjunct here) to destroy them, making their wives widows and their children orphans.



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