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Exodus 21:19-27 Modern English Version (MEV)

19. and then if he gets up and walks around on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished. Only he must pay for his loss of time and shall see to it that he is thoroughly healed.

20. If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a rod so that he or she dies at his hand, then he shall surely be punished.

21. Nevertheless, if he survives for a day or two, then he shall not be punished, for it is his money.

22. If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her child is born prematurely, yet there is no serious injury, then he shall be surely punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23. But if there is any serious injury, then you shall give life for life,

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

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

26. If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or the eye of his female servant so that it is destroyed, then he must let him go free on account of his eye.

27. If he knocks out his male servant’s tooth or his female servant’s tooth, then he shall let him or her go free on account of the tooth.

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