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Exodus 21:26

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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.

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  1. Exodus 21:24

    Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

  2. Exodus 21:25

    Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

  3. 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.

  4. Exodus 21:28

    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.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.