Exodus 21:18

“And if men strive together, etc.] Quarrel and fight, and wrestle with and box one another: and one smite another with a stone; which lying near him he might take up, and in his passion throw it at his antagonist: or with his fist; with his double fist, as we express it, with his hand closed, that it might come with the greater force, and give the greater blow: and he die not, but keepeth his bed; does not die with the blow of the stone or fist, yet receives so much damage by it that he is obliged to take to his bed; or, as the Targum of Jerusalem paraphrases it, is cast on the bed sick; or, as the Targum of Jonathan, falls into a disease, as a fever, or the like, through the force of the…”

“21:18-27 These laws governed compensation for injuries that did not lead to death.”

“men: Exo 21:22, Exo 2:13; Deu 25:11; Sa2 14:6 another: or, his neighbour a stone: Exo 21:20; Num 35:16-24 Exodus 21:19”

“Fatal blows and the crimes placed on a par with them are now followed in simple order by the laws relating to bodily injuries. Exo 21:18-19 If in the course of a quarrel one man should hit another with a stone or with his fist, so that, although he did not die, he "lay upon his bed," i.e., became bedridden; if the person struck should get up again and walk out with his staff, the other would be innocent, he should "only give him his sitting and have him cured," i.e., compensate him for his loss of time and the cost of recovery. This certainly implies, on the one hand, that if the man died upon his bed, the injury was to be punished with death, according to Exo 21:12; and on the other hand,…”