Verse 23
Exodus 21:23
Literal Standard Version
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and if there is harm to them, then you have given life for life,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אִם אָס֖וֹן יִהְיֶ֑ה וְ/נָתַתָּ֥ה נֶ֖פֶשׁ תַּ֥חַת נָֽפֶשׁ
English Translation
And if there is a fatality, you shall give a life for a life.
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Chapter 21 Context
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And these are the judgments which you set before them:
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When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves for six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman...
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if he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he is owner of a wife, then his wife has gone...
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if his lord gives a wife to him, and she has borne sons or daughters to him—the wife and her childre...
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And if the servant really says: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons—I do not go out free,
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then his lord has brought him near to God (Elohim), and has brought him near to the door, or to the...
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And when a man sells his daughter for a handmaid, she does not go out according to the going out of...
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if it is evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he has not betrothed her, then he has let her be rans...
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And if he betroths her to his son, he does to her according to the right of daughters.
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If he takes another woman for him, he does not withdraw her food, her covering, and her habitation;
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and if he does not do these three for her, then she has gone out for nothing, without money.
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He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;
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as for him who has not laid wait, but God (Elohim) has brought him to his hand, I have even set a pl...
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And when a man presumes against his neighbor to slay him with subtlety, you take him from My altar t...
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And he who strikes his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
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And he who steals a man, and has sold him, and he has been found in his hand, is certainly put to de...
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And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
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And when men contend, and a man has struck his neighbor with a stone, or with the fist, and he does...
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if he rises, and has gone up and down outside on his staff, then the striker has been acquitted; he...
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And when a man strikes his manservant or his handmaid with a rod, and he has died under his hand—he...
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only if he remains a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he is his money.
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And when men strive, and have struck a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is...
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and if there is harm to them, then you have given life for life,
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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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And when a man strikes the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his handmaid, and has destroyed it,...
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and if he knocks out a tooth of his manservant or a tooth of his handmaid, he sends him away as a fr...
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And when an ox gores man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is...
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and if the ox is one accustomed to gore before, and it has been testified to its owner, and he does...
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If atonement is laid on him, then he has given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid...
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whether it gores a son or gores a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.
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If the ox gores a manservant or a handmaid, he gives thirty silver shekels to their lord, and the ox...
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And when a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey has...
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the owner of the pit repays, he gives back money to its owner, and the dead is his.
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And when a man’s ox strikes the ox of his neighbor and it has died, then they have sold the living o...
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or, if it has been known that the ox is one accustomed to gore before, and its owner does not watch...
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