Cursing Mom and Dad: "Whoever curses his mother or his father should be put to death." - Exodus 21:17
Killing someone, unless he is a slave: "When a man strikes a slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he is to be punished. If the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished. For the slave is his money." - Exodus 21:20 Note that beating a slave, even savagely with a weapon, is perfectly OK as long as he takes 24-48 hours to die. Also, restitution is to the owner of the slave, not the human being who was beaten (since according to the OT, the slave is not human but "money."
"When men strive together and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who has hurt her shall be fined according to the woman's husband shall lay upon him." - Exoduse 21:22 Note that the death of the fetus is NOT considered murder, as abortion rights advocates claim.
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