26"If a man hits a manservant or maidservant in the eye and destroys it, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the eye.


In Context

23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,

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

25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

26 "If a man hits a manservant or maidservant in the eye and destroys it, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the eye.

27 And if he knocks out the tooth of a manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the tooth.

28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull must be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.

Exodus 21:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:26And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:26If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:26And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:26And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid, and it be marred, he shall let him go for his eye.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:26And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:26And if a man shall smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it shall perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:26|If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:26'And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:26And 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.