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Exodus 21:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “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. "

Exodus 21:26

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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 the servant 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.

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Jeremiah 34:16

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"but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’”"

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Exodus 21:1

"“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:"

Exodus 21:2

"“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything."

Exodus 21:3

"If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him."

Exodus 21:4

"If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself."

Exodus 21:5

"But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’"

Exodus 21:6

"then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever."

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