"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

"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.

It shall have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.

The opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.