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Exodus 21:26
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24 aeye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,  
25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 “If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye.
27 And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth.

Animal Control Laws

28 “If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then athe ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be1 acquitted.  
29 But if the ox tended to thrust with its horn in times past, and it has been made known to his owner, and he has not kept it confined, so that it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.
Verse Comparison: Exodus 21:26

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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® Bible
And if a man hits the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

Contemporary English Version
If you hit one of your slaves and cause the loss of an eye, the slave must be set free.

Darby English Version
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.

Good News Bible
"If someone hits his male or female slave in the eye and puts it out, he is to free the slave as payment for the 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.

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.

New International Version
"If a man hits a manservant or maidservant in the eye and destroys it, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the eye.

New King James Version
“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"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.

Revised Standard Version
"When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the eye's sake.

Young's 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;


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