0 According to the Bible, when is it OK to beat your slaves?

Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. Deuteronomy 13:15

Trivia: If the brother of a married man who died childless fails to have sex with his dead brother's wife, what must the wife do?

According to the Bible, when is it OK to beat your slaves?


As long as they live at least a day or two after the beating.

If a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and ... he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money. Exodus 21:20

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