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Exodus 21:21-33 New English Translation (NET)

21. However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

22. “If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

23. But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a 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 his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

27. If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

28. “If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

29. But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned, and he did not take the necessary precautions, and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death.

30. If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

31. If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

32. If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.

33. “If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

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