20. When a slave owner hits a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner should be punished.
21. But if the slave gets up after a day or two, the slave owner shouldn’t be punished because the slave is the owner’s property.
22. When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that she has a miscarriage but no other injury occurs, then the guilty party will be fined what the woman’s husband demands, as negotiated with the judges.
23. If there is further injury, then you will give a life for a life,
24. an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,
25. a burn for a burn, a bruise for a bruise, a wound for a wound.
26. When a slave owner hits and blinds the eye of a male or female slave, he should let the slave go free on account of the eye.