Exodus 21:26-28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

He shall let him go free A very fit recompense to a servant for such a loss, and certainly meant to be extended to every other material personal injury. If an ox Or any other creature.

Exodus 21:26-28

26 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.

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.

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.