◄ Exodus 21:27 ►
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Good News Translation
If he knocks out a tooth, he is to free the slave as payment for the tooth.

New Revised Standard Version
If the owner knocks out a tooth of a male or female slave, the slave shall be let go, a free person, to compensate for the tooth.

Contemporary English Version
The same law applies if you knock out a slave's tooth--the slave goes free.

New American Bible
If he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let the slave go free in compensation for the tooth.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Context
Personal Injury Laws
…26If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out. 27Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.28If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:26
If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.

Exodus 21:28
If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

Exodus 21:26
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