New English Translation

Exodus 21:20-25 New English Translation (NET)

20. “If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

21. However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

22. “If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

23. But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life,

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

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