Exodus 21:26

English Standard Version 2016

“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.

Cross References

Colossians 4:1

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Ephesians 6:9

Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Psalm 10:18

to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

Exodus 21:20

“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.

Exodus 21:25

burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Exodus 21:27

If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.

Exodus 21:24

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