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.
Cross References
Exodus 21:25burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.
Exodus 21:27And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
Treasury of Scripture
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.
Exodus 21:20
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
