Devine Scripture

Exodus 21:26

Exodus chapter 21 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.25burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

v.26This passage

v.27And if he smite out his man-servant’s tooth, or his maid-servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 16:19

    Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

  • Psalms 10:14

    Thou hast seenit; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

  • Job 31:13

    If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

  • Psalms 9:12

    For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

  • Ephesians 6:9

    And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

  • Psalms 10:18

    To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.