Exodus 21:26

¶ And if a man smite the eye of his seruant, or the eye of his mayd, that it perish, hee shall let him goe free for his eyes sake.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
- American Standard Version (1901)

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.
- Basic English Bible

If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid, and it be marred, he shall let him go for his eye.
- Darby Bible

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.
- Douay-Rheims Bible

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
- English Revised Version

If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for Exodus 21:26

21:24 Eye for eye - The execution of this law is not put into the hands of private persons, as if every man might avenge himself, which would introduce universal confusion. The tradition of the elders seems to have put this corrupt gloss upon it. But magistrates had an eye to this rule in punishing offenders, and doing right to those that are injured.