Holman Christian Standard Bible

Exodus 21:22-29 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

22. “When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

23. If there is an injury, then you must give life for life,

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

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

26. “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.

27. If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his tooth.

28. “When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox’s owner is innocent.

29. However, if the ox was in the habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned, and its owner must also be put to death.