Exodus 21:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:20 : 20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
  • Job 31:13-15 : 13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me; 14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions? 15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
  • Ps 10:14 : 14 You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
  • Ps 10:18 : 18 To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
  • Ps 72:12-14 : 12 For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper. 13 He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need. 14 He will keep their souls free from evil designs and violent attacks; and their blood will be of value in his eyes.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge: 23 For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:27-28
    2 verses
    90%

    27Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

    28If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.

  • Exod 21:18-21
    4 verses
    82%

    18If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

    19If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.

    20If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

    21But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

  • Exod 21:23-25
    3 verses
    81%

    23But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,

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

    25Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.

  • Exod 21:2-8
    7 verses
    79%

    2If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

    3If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

    4If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

    5But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

    6Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

    7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

    8If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

  • Exod 21:30-32
    3 verses
    77%

    30If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.

    31If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.

    32If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

  • Lev 24:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;

    20Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.

    21He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • Deut 15:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;

    17Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

    18Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Deut 19:21
    74%

    21Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

    13And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:

  • Jer 34:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:

    10And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

  • Exod 21:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

    12He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

  • Deut 25:12
    72%

    12Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

  • Exod 21:16
    72%

    16Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.

    36But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

  • Job 31:13
    71%

    13If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

  • Jer 34:14
    71%

    14At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    70%

    53And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

    54And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

  • Deut 21:14
    70%

    14But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

  • Lev 25:41-42
    2 verses
    70%

    41Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

    42For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

  • Matt 18:9
    70%

    9And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.

  • Exod 22:1
    70%

    1If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

  • Matt 5:29
    70%

    29And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

  • Lev 25:39
    69%

    39And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

  • Lev 25:44
    69%

    44But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

  • Deut 23:15
    69%

    15Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

  • Mark 9:47
    69%

    47And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,