Exo 22:24 | NETfull | STEP | 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.

Exodus 22:24

24 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. ^{▼▼ 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.}