“When a slaveowner strikes the eye of a male or female slave, destroying it, the owner shall let the slave go, a free person, to compensate for the eye.
Exodus 21:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If the owner knocks out a tooth of a male or female slave, the slave shall be let go, a free person, to compensate for the tooth. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible If he knocks out a tooth of a male or female slave, he should let the slave go free on account of the tooth. Catholic Public Domain Version Likewise, if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female servant, he shall similarly release them freely. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Also if he strike out a tooth of his man-servant or maid-servant, he shall in like manner make them free. |
“When a slaveowner strikes the eye of a male or female slave, destroying it, the owner shall let the slave go, a free person, to compensate for the eye.
“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.