Exodus 21:26 Parallel Translations

"Whenever an owner hits his male or female slave in the eye and the slave is blinded, he must let the slave go free to make up for the loss of the eye.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

DBY:

And 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.

ERV:

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.

JPS:

And if a man smite the eye of his bondman, or the eye of his bondwoman, and destroy it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

WBS:

And 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.

WEB:

"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.

YLT:

'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;

Exodus 21:26 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 21:25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Exodus 21:27 "And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

21:22-36 The cases here mentioned give rules of justice then, and still in use, for deciding similar matters. We are taught by these laws, that we must be very careful to do no wrong, either directly or indirectly. If we have done wrong, we must be very willing to make it good, and be desirous that nobody may lose by us.

CONC:

Account Blow Bondman Bondwoman Causing Compensate Damage Destroy Destroyed Destroys Destruction Eye Eye's Female Free Freeman Gives Handmaid Hits Maid Maid's Maidservant Male Manservant Man-servant Marred Perish Sake Servant Servant's Slave Smite Smiteth Strike Strikes Woman-servant

Account Bondman Bondwoman Causing Compensate Damage Destroy Destroyed Destroys Destruction Eye Female Free Freeman Gives Handmaid Hits Maid Maid's Maidservant Male Manservant Man-Servant Marred Perish Sake Servant Servant's Slave Smite Smiteth Strikes Woman-Servant

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