English Standard Version

Exodus 21:21-29 English Standard Version (ESV)

21. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.

22. “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life,

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

25. burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26. “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.

27. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.

28. “When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.

29. But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.