Exodus 21:26 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁶ “And when a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he is to let him go free for the sake of his eye.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁶ When a slave owner hits and blinds the eye of a male or female slave, he should let the slave go free on account of the eye.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ If anyone will have struck the eye of his male or female servant, having left them with one eye, he shall release them freely, because of the eye that he has put out.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ If any man strike the eye of his man-servant or maid-servant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.

Exodus 21:26 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:5

“And now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. And see, we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been subjected, and there is no power in our hands, for other men have our lands and vineyards.”

Psalm 10:14

Rĕsh You have seen it, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:18

To defend the fatherless and the downtrodden; So that man who is of the earth no longer oppresses!

Psalm 9:12

For He remembers the seekers of bloodshed, He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Exodus 21:20

“And when a man strikes his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, he shall certainly be punished.

Exodus 21:24

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Exodus 21:25

burn for burn, wound for wound, lash for lash.

Exodus 21:27

“And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he is to let him go free for the sake of his tooth.

Ephesians 6:9

And, masters, do the same to them, refrain from threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in the heavens, and there is no partiality with Him.

Deuteronomy 16:19

“Do not distort right-ruling. Do not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Colossians 4:1

Masters, give your servants what is righteous and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in the heavens.