Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.
New American Standard Bible
And if he
King James Version
And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Holman Bible
If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his tooth.
International Standard Version
If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he is to release him as a free man in exchange for his tooth.
A Conservative Version
And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
American Standard Version
And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Amplified
And if he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or female servant, he must let the servant go free because of [the loss of] the tooth.
Darby Translation
And if he knock out his bondman's tooth or his handmaid's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth.
Julia Smith Translation
And if the tooth of his servant or the tooth of his maid he shall cast out, he shall send him forth free for his tooth.
King James 2000
And if he knocks out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And if he causes the tooth of his male slave or the tooth of his female slave to fall out, he will release him as free in place of his tooth.
Modern King James verseion
And if he strikes out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Also, if he smite out his servant's or his maid's tooth, he shall let them go out free for the tooth's sake.
NET Bible
If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
New Heart English Bible
If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
The Emphasized Bible
or, if, the tooth of his servant or the tooth of his handmaid, he knock out, he shall send him forth, free, for his tooth.
Webster
And if he shall smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
World English Bible
If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Youngs Literal Translation
and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.
Themes
Assault and battery » Laws concerning
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
Naphal
`ebed
Shen
שׁן
Shen
Usage: 55
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 21:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws About Personal Injury
26 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. 27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth. 28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.