Exodus 21:26
Anyone who hits their male or female slave in the eye and blinds them must free the slave as compensation for the eye.
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25a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, and a bruise for a bruise.
Cross References
Exodus 21:20Anyone who hits their male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies as a result, must be punished.
Deuteronomy 16:19Don't pervert justice or show favoritism. Don't take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the wise and twists the words of the truthful.
Job 31:13If I had refused to listen to my menservants or maidservants when they brought their complaints to me,
Psalms 10:14But you do see the trouble and grief they cause. Take it into your own hands. The helpless trust in you; you defend the orphans.
Psalms 72:12He will help the poor when they cry out to him, and help those who are suffering that have no one to support them.
Ephesians 6:9Masters, you should treat your servants the same way. Don't threaten them, remember that the Lord in heaven is both their master and yours, and he treats people the same, without favoritism.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:23-36
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall… Read the whole commentary →