Exodus 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.

World Messianic Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

25burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

27If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.

Read all of Exodus 21

Cross References

Exodus 21:20“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.

Deuteronomy 16:19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Job 31:13“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

Psalms 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Ephesians 6:9You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Exodus 21:26