Exodus 21:26

World English Bible (2000)

"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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:20 : 20 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards."
  • Job 31:13-15 : 13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him? 15 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
  • Ps 10:14 : 14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
  • Ps 10:18 : 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.
  • Ps 72:12-14 : 12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. 13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. 14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court; 23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 You 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.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:27-28
    2 verses
    90%

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

    28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

  • Exod 21:18-21
    4 verses
    82%

    18 "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

    19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

    20 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

    21 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

  • Exod 21:23-25
    3 verses
    81%

    23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

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

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

  • Exod 21:2-8
    7 verses
    79%

    2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

    3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

    4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

    5 But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'

    6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

    7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

    8 If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

  • Exod 21:30-32
    3 verses
    77%

    30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

    31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

    32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

  • Lev 24:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

    20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

    21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Deut 15:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16 It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you;" because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

    17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

    18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

  • Deut 19:21
    74%

    21 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

    13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

  • Jer 34:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

    10 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

  • Exod 21:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

    12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

  • Deut 25:12
    72%

    12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

  • Exod 21:16
    72%

    16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35 "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

    36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Job 31:13
    71%

    13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

  • Jer 34:14
    71%

    14 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    70%

    53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

    54 If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.

  • Deut 21:14
    70%

    14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

  • Lev 25:41-42
    2 verses
    70%

    41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

    42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

  • Matt 18:9
    70%

    9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

  • Exod 22:1
    70%

    1 "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

  • Matt 5:29
    70%

    29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

  • Lev 25:39
    69%

    39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

  • Lev 25:44
    69%

    44 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

  • Deut 23:15
    69%

    15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:

  • Mark 9:47
    69%

    47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,