Exodus 21:27
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New International Version (©1984)
And if he knocks out the tooth of a manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the tooth.

New Living Translation (©2007)
And if a man knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.

English Standard Version (©2001)
If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If the owner knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free to make up for the loss of the tooth.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And if he knocks out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

American 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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.

Darby Bible Translation
And if he knock out his bondman's tooth or his handmaid's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth.

English Revised 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if he shall smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

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.

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.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

If he smite out his - tooth - It was a noble law that obliged the unmerciful slaveholder to set the slave at liberty whose eye or tooth he had knocked out. If this did not teach them humanity, it taught them caution, as one rash blow might have deprived them of all right to the future services of the slave; and thus self-interest obliged them to be cautious and circumspect.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth,.... Give them such a slap on the face, or a blow on the mouth, as to strike out one of their teeth; this also the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi restrain to a Canaanitish servant or maid:

he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake; both him and her, the servant and the maid; this, though of lesser consequence than the loss of an eye, was punished in the same manner with the loss of the servant man or maid, to make masters careful how they abused their servants in any degree. And though only these parts are expressed, yet Jarchi and Aben Ezra observe, that all other principal members of the body, which they reckon to be twenty four, are included, as the fingers, toes, &c.

Geneva Study Bible

And if he smite {s} out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

(s) So God revenges cruelty in the even the least things.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:22-36 The cases here mentioned give rules of justice then, and still in use, for deciding similar matters. We are taught by these laws, that we must be very careful to do no wrong, either directly or indirectly. If we have done wrong, we must be very willing to make it good, and be desirous that nobody may lose by us.


Exodus 21:26 "If a man hits a manservant or maidservant in the eye and destroys it, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the eye.
Exodus 21:28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull must be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.

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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 Chapter 21 Verse 27

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