Verse 27
Exodus 21:27
World English Bible, British Edition
27
If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s
tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אִם שֵׁ֥ן עַבְדּ֛/וֹ אֽוֹ שֵׁ֥ן אֲמָת֖/וֹ יַפִּ֑יל לַֽ/חָפְשִׁ֥י יְשַׁלְּחֶ֖/נּוּ תַּ֥חַת שִׁנּֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And if his servant’s teeth or his maid’s teeth are knocked out, he shall send him free for his tooth.
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Chapter 21 Context
1
“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
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2
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in
the seventh he shall go out free with...
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3
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married,
then his wife shall go out...
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4
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the
wife and her children shall...
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5
But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and
my children. I will not go out...
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6
then his master shall bring him to God (Elohim), and shall bring him to the door
or to the doorpost,...
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7
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall
not go out as the male servants do.
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8
If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then
he shall let her be redeemed....
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9
If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
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10
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food,
her clothing, and her marital r...
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11
If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without
paying any money.
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12
“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to
death,
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13
but not if it is unintentional, but God (Elohim) allows it to happen; then I
will appoint you a plac...
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14
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbour to kill
him, you shall take him from my a...
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15
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely
put to death.
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16
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found
in his hand, he shall surely be put to...
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17
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be
put to death.
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18
“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with
his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is...
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19
if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck
him shall be cleared; only he...
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20
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he
dies under his hand, the man shall sure...
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21
Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall
not be punished, for the servan...
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22
“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth
prematurely, and yet no harm follows...
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23
But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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25
burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
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26
“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and
destroys it, he shall let him go free fo...
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27
If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s
tooth, he shall let the servant...
28
“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely
be stoned, and its meat shall not...
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29
But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been
testified to its owner, and he...
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30
If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption
of his life whatever is imposed...
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31
Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this
judgement it shall be done to...
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32
If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to the...
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33
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover
it, and a bull or a donkey falls int...
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34
the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its
owner, and the dead animal shall...
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35
“If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then
they shall sell the live bull, and divid...
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Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past,
and its owner has not kept i...
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