Keluaran 21:15

21:15 “Whoever strikes ¹  his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

[21:15]  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).