Personal Injury Laws
Exodus 21:27
In 11 translations
- BSB
- And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
- KJV
- And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- And if he smite out his man-servant’s tooth, or his maid-servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
- LSV
- and if he knocks out a tooth of his manservant or a tooth of his handmaid, he sends him away as a freeman for his tooth.
- YLT
- and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.
- DBY
- And if he knock out his bondman's tooth or his handmaid's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth.
- DRC
- Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.
- GNV
- Also if he smite out his seruants tooth, or his maides tooth, he shall let him goe out free for his tooth.
- JPS
- And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
- LXXE
- And if he should smite out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maid-servant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְאִם־שֵׁ֥ן עַבְדּ֛וֹ אֽוֹ־שֵׁ֥ן אֲמָת֖וֹ יַפִּ֑יל לַֽחָפְשִׁ֥י יְשַׁלְּחֶ֖נּוּ תַּ֥חַת שִׁנּֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐὰν δὲ τὸν ὀδόντα τοῦ οἰκέτου, ἢ τὸν ὀδόντα τῆς θεραπαίνης αὐτοῦ ἐκκόψῃ, ἐλευθέρους ἐξαποστελεῖ αὐτοὺς ἀντὶ τοῦ ὀδόντος αὐτῶν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
SlaveBoreAssault and BatteryHammurabi, Code ofCrucifixionDaughterCovenant, Book of theBlindness, JudicialOrdinanceMaster
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).