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Exodus 21:22-29 Common English Bible (CEB)

22. When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that she has a miscarriage but no other injury occurs, then the guilty party will be fined what the woman’s husband demands, as negotiated with the judges.

23. If there is further injury, then you will give a life for a life,

24. an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,

25. a burn for a burn, a bruise for a bruise, a wound for a wound.

26. When a slave owner hits and blinds the eye of a male or female slave, he should let the slave go free on account of the eye.

27. If he knocks out a tooth of a male or female slave, he should let the slave go free on account of the tooth.

28. When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox should be stoned to death, and the meat of the ox shouldn’t be eaten. But the owner of the ox shouldn’t be punished.

29. However, if the ox had gored people in the past and its owner had been warned but didn’t watch out for it, and the ox ends up killing a man or a woman, then the ox should be stoned to death, and its owner should also be put to death.

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