[LSF] No murder isn't always punished by death, cf Exodus 21:20. No punishment is listed. How do you translate naqom >>>yenaqem?
[JDS] He shall be avenged. Blood vengeance, meanng the death penalty. In other words, a slave is worthy of blood vengeance >>just as is a free man. That;s the punishment. Casuistic law always has a sanction.
[LSF} I'm not sure about this.It seems if so, then it would say mut, yamut. I don't think a punishment,
except what is avenged by God, i/e., if he has an accedental death. But there is no punishment
assigned. The slave was his property, and the presumption is you don't purposely destroy
your own property. So the assumption probably is that you can't murder your own slave
(Like you can't rape your wife?), so that there is no death penalty.
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