KJV King James Version
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.
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Exodus 21:27
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — Exodus 21
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
27 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.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
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וְאִם־H518 · imifשֵׁ֥ןH8127 · shentoothעַבְדּ֛וֹH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveאֽוֹ־H176 · oorשֵׁ֥ןH8127 · shentoothאֲמָת֖וֹH519 · a.mahmaidservantיַפִּ֑ילH5307 · na.phalto fall: fallלַֽחָפְשִׁ֥יH2670 · choph.shifreeיְשַׁלְּחֶ֖נּוּH7971 · sha.lachto send: departתַּ֥חַתH8478 · ta.chatunderneath: underשִׁנּֽוֹ׃ פH8127 · shentooth
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