Exodus 21:26

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“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:20 : 20 “If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”
  • Job 31:13-15 : 13 “If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me, 14 then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him? 15 Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For the one who takes revenge against murderers took notice of the oppressed; he did not overlook their cry for help
  • Ps 10:14 : 14 You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.
  • Ps 10:18 : 18 You defend the fatherless and oppressed, so that mere mortals may no longer terrorize them.
  • Ps 72:12-14 : 12 For he will rescue the needy when they cry out for help, and the oppressed who have no defender. 13 He will take pity on the poor and needy; the lives of the needy he will save. 14 From harm and violence he will defend them; he will value their lives.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court, 23 for the LORD will plead their case and will rob the life those who are robbing them.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:27-28
    2 verses
    90%

    27If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

    28Laws about Animals“If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

  • Exod 21:18-21
    4 verses
    82%

    18“If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

    19and then if he gets up and walks about outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay for the injured person’s loss of time and see to it that he is fully healed.

    20“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

    21However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

  • Exod 21:23-25
    3 verses
    81%

    23But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life,

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

    25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

  • Exod 21:2-8
    7 verses
    79%

    2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

    3If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.

    4If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.

    5But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

    6then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

    7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

    8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

  • Exod 21:30-32
    3 verses
    77%

    30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

    31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

    32If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.

  • Lev 24:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him–

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth– just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

    21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

  • Deut 15:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16However, if the servant says to you,“I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

    17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently(this applies to your female servant as well).

    18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • Deut 19:21
    74%

    21You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

    13If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

  • Jer 34:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

    10All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them.

  • Exod 21:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 25:12
    72%

    12then you must cut off her hand– do not pity her.

  • Exod 21:16
    72%

    16“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, and they will also divide the dead ox.

    36Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.

  • Job 31:13
    71%

    13“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

  • Jer 34:14
    71%

    14“Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    70%

    53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

    54If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

  • Deut 21:14
    70%

    14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

  • Lev 25:41-42
    2 verses
    70%

    41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

    42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

  • Matt 18:9
    70%

    9And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.

  • Exod 22:1
    70%

    1Laws about Property(21:37)“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

  • Matt 5:29
    70%

    29If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

  • Lev 25:39
    69%

    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

  • Lev 25:44
    69%

    44“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

  • Deut 23:15
    69%

    15Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

  • Mark 9:47
    69%

    47If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,