Exodus 21:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Exodus 21:26 Cross References

Colossians 4:1

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Ephesians 6:9

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

Psalm 10:18

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man which is of the earth may be terrible no more.

Psalm 10:14

Thon hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to take it into thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 9:12

For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them: He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

Nehemiah 5:5

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou shalt not wrest judgement; thou shalt not respect persons: neither shalt thou take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Exodus 21:20

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

Exodus 21:25

burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Exodus 21:27

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.

Exodus 21:24

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