World English Bible

Exodus 21:15-28 World English Bible (WEB)

15. “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

16. “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

17. “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

18. “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;

19. if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

20. “If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

21. Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

22. “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.

23. But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

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

25. burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

26. “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.

27. If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

28. “If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.