Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.
King James Version
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Holman Bible
“When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.
International Standard Version
"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he is to release him as a free man in exchange for his eye.
A Conservative Version
And if a man smites the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
American Standard Version
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Amplified
“If a man hits the eye of his male servant or female servant and it is destroyed, he must let the servant go free because of [the loss of] the eye.
Bible in Basic English
If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.
Darby Translation
And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid, and it be marred, he shall let him go for his eye.
Julia Smith Translation
And if a man strike the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid, and he destroyed it; he shall send him forth free for the sake of his eye.
King James 2000
And if a man strikes the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Lexham Expanded Bible
" 'And if a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall release him as free in place of his eye.
Modern King James verseion
And if a man strike the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, so that it perishes, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If a man smite his servant or his maid in the eye and put it out, he shall let them go free for the eye's sake.
NET Bible
"If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
New Heart English Bible
"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
The Emphasized Bible
And, when a man smiteth the eye of his servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and destroyeth it, he shall send him forth, free, for his eye;
Webster
And if a man shall smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it shall perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
World English Bible
"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Youngs Literal Translation
'And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;
Themes
Assault and battery » Laws concerning
Eyes » Punishment for injuring
Recompense/restitution » The eye for an eye law
Servant » Bond » Laws of moses concerning
Servants » Slaves or bond » Maimed or injured by masters, to have their freedom
Interlinear
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`ayin
`ebed
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Shachath
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 21:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws About Personal Injury
25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 “If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye. 27 And if he smites out his manslave's tooth or his maidslave's tooth, he shall let them go free for their tooth's sake.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 21:20
And if a man smites his slave or his maid with a rod and he dies under his hand, he shall be surely punished.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shalt not twist that which is right; thou shalt not respect persons neither take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now, given that the flesh of our brethren is as our flesh and their sons as our sons, behold, we subject our sons and our daughters to slavery, and there are some of our daughters in bondage already; neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Job 31:13-15
If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;
Psalm 9:12
When he makes requirement for blood, he remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the humble.
Psalm 10:14
Thou hast seen it, for thou dost behold mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poor commits himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no longer oppress.
Psalm 72:12-14
For he shall deliver the destitute when he cries and the poor that has no helper.
Proverbs 22:22-23
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment:
Ephesians 6:9
And, ye masters, do the same unto them, forbearing threats, knowing that their Master and yours is also in the heavens and that he is no respecter of persons.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, do that which is just and right with your slaves, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.