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Exodus 21:26

New American Standard Bible

26 “And if someone strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free on account of the eye.

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American Standard Version

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.

Christian Standard Bible

“When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.

English Standard Version

“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.

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.

New International Version

“An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.

New King James Version

“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye.

New Living Translation

“If a man hits his male or female slave in the eye and the eye is blinded, he must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.

World English Bible

“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.