Exodus 21:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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)

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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

²⁷ Likewise, if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female servant, he shall similarly release them freely.

Exodus 21:27 Cross References

Exodus 21:26

“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 21:28

“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.