Exodus 21:26

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And if a man smyte his seruaunt or his mayde in the eye, that it perishe, he shall let them go free for the eyes sake.

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  • Exod 21:20 : 20 And if a man smyte his seruaunt or his mayde with a rod, & they dye vnder his hande, he shalbe greeuously punished.
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 Wrest not thou the lawe, nor knowe any person, neither take any rewarde: for giftes do blinde the eyes of the wise, & peruert the wordes of the righteous.
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 And now our fleshe is as the fleshe of our brethren, and our children as their children: and loe we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters as seruauntes, and some of our daughters are subdued vnto bondage alredie, and no strength is there in our handes to redeeme them, and other men haue our landes and vineyardes.
  • Job 31:13-15 : 13 If I euer thought scorne to do right vnto my seruauntes & maydens, when they had any matter against me: 14 When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him? 15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies?
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For he maketh inquisition of blood: he remembreth it, and forgetteth not the complaynt of the poore.
  • Ps 10:14 : 14 Surely thou hast seene this for thou beholdest labour and spite: that thou mayest take the matter into thy hands, he that is weake leaueth it for thee, for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.
  • Ps 10:18 : 18 Thou wylt be attentiue with thyne eare, to geue iudgement for the fatherlesse and oppressed: so no man in the earth shall once go about hereafter to do them violence.
  • Ps 72:12-14 : 12 For he wyll delyuer the poore when he cryeth: and the afflicted and hym that hath no helper. 13 He wyll haue compassion vpon the poore and needy: and he wyll preserue the soules of the poore. 14 He wyll delyuer their soules from deceipt and oppression: and their blood shalbe in his syght.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement: 23 For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 And ye maisters do the same thynges vnto them, puttyng away threatnyng: knowyng that your maister also is in heauen, neither is respecte of person with hym.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Maisters, do vnto your seruauntes that which is iust & equall, knowyng that ye also haue a maister in heauen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:27-28
    2 verses
    90%

    27Also if he smyte out his seruaunt or his maydes tothe, he shall let them go out free for the tothes sake.

    28If an oxe gore a man or a woman, that they dye, then the oxe shalbe stoned, and his fleshe shall not be eaten: but the owner of the oxe shall go quite.

  • Exod 21:18-21
    4 verses
    82%

    18If men stryue together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fyste, and he dye not, but lyeth in his bed:

    19If he rise agayne, and walke without vpon his staffe, then shall he that smote hym go quite, saue only he shall beare his charges for leesyng his tyme, and shall paye for his healyng.

    20And if a man smyte his seruaunt or his mayde with a rod, & they dye vnder his hande, he shalbe greeuously punished.

    21And if he continue a day or two, it shal not be reueged, for he is his money.

  • Exod 21:23-25
    3 verses
    81%

    23And if any destruction folowe, then he shall geue life for life,

    24Eye for eye, tothe for tothe, hande for hande, foote for foote,

    25Burnyng for burnyng, wounde for wounde, strype for strype.

  • Exod 21:2-8
    7 verses
    79%

    2If thou bye a seruaunt that is an Hebrue, sixe yeres he shall serue, & in the seuenth, he shall go out free paying nothyng.

    3If he came alone, he shall go out alone: and yf he came maryed, his wyfe shall go out with hym.

    4And if his maister haue geuen hym a wyfe, and she haue borne him sonnes or daughters: then the wyfe and her chyldren shalbe her maisters, and he shall go out alone.

    5And yf the seruaunt say: I loue my maister, my wyfe, and my chyldren, I wyll not go out free:

    6His maister shall bryng hym vnto the iudges, and set hym to the doore or the doorepost, and his maister shal bore his eare through with a naule, and he shalbe his seruaunt for euer.

    7And if a man sell his daughter to be a seruaunt, she shal not go out as the men seruauntes do.

    8If she please not her maister, who hath nowe promised her mariage, then shall he let her redeeme her selfe: To sell her vnto a straunge nation shall he haue no power, seyng he despised her.

  • Exod 21:30-32
    3 verses
    77%

    30If there be set to hym a sume of money, then he shal geue for the redeeming of his life whatsoeuer is layde vpo him.

    31And whether he haue gored a sonne or a daughter, accordyng to the same iudgement shall it be done vnto him.

    32But if it be a seruaunt or a mayde that the oxe hath gored, then he shall geue vnto their maister thirtie sicles, and the oxe shalbe stoned.

  • Lev 24:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19And yf a man cause a blemishe in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall it be done to hym.

    20Broke for broke, eye for eye, and tooth for tooth: euen as he hath blemisshed a man, so shall he be blemisshed agayne.

    21And he that kylleth a beast, let hym restore it: and he that kylleth a man, let hym dye.

  • Deut 15:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16And if he say vnto thee, I wyll not go away from thee: because he loueth thee and thine house, and is well at ease with thee:

    17Then shalt thou take an aule, & nayle his eare to the doore therwith, and let hym be thy seruaunt for euer: And vnto thy mayde seruaunt thou shalt do likewise.

    18And let it not greeue thine eye, when thou lettest him go out free fro thee, for he hath ben worth a double hired seruaunt to thee in his seruice sixe yeres: And the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all that thou doest.

  • Deut 19:21
    74%

    21And thine eye shall haue no copassion, but lyfe for lyfe, eye for eye, toothe for toothe, hande for hande, foote for foote.

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12If thy brother an Hebrue sell hym selfe to thee, or an Hebrue woman, and serue thee sixe yeres, in the seuenth yere thou shalt let hym go free from thee.

    13And when thou sendest hym out free from thee, thou shalt not let hym go away emptie:

  • Jer 34:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9So that euery man should let his seruaunt and handmayde go free, Hebrue and Hebruesse, and no Iewe holde his brother as a bondman.

    10Nowe as they had consented, all the princes and all the people whiche had gathered vnto this agreement, that euery man shoulde set at libertie his bondseruaunt and bondwoman, and no longer to holde them bounde: euen so they were obedient, and let them go free.

  • Exod 21:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And if he do not these three vnto her, the shal she go out free & pay no money.

    12He that smyteth a man, that he dye, shalbe slayne for it.

  • Deut 25:12
    72%

    12Thou shalt cut of her hande, and let not thyne eye pitie her.

  • Exod 21:16
    72%

    16He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, if he be proued vppon hym, shalbe slayne for it.

  • Exod 21:35-36
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    71%

    35If one mans oxe hurt another, that he dye: then they shall sell the lyue oxe, and deuide the money, and the dead oxe also they shall deuide.

    36Or if it be knowen that the oxe hath vsed to pushe in tyme past, & his maister hath not kept hym: he shall paye oxe for oxe, and the dead shalbe his owne.

  • Job 31:13
    71%

    13If I euer thought scorne to do right vnto my seruauntes & maydens, when they had any matter against me:

  • Jer 34:14
    71%

    14When seuen yeres are out, euery man shall let his bought seruaunt an Hebrue go free, if he haue serued hym sixe yeres: but your fathers obayed me not, and hearkened not vnto me.

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    70%

    53And he shalbe with hym yere by yere as an hired seruaunt: and the other shal not raigne cruelly ouer him in thy sight.

    54If he be not redeemed thus, he shall go out in the yere of Iubilee, both he and his children with hym:

  • Deut 21:14
    70%

    14And if thou haue no fauour vnto her, then let her go whither she lusteth, and sell her not for money, nor make marchaundize of her, because thou hast humbled her.

  • Lev 25:41-42
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    70%

    41And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with hym, and shall returne vnto his owne kinred agayne, and vnto the possession of his fathers shall he returne.

    42For they are my seruauntes, which I brought out of the lande of Egypt, and shall not therfore be solde as bondmen.

  • Matt 18:9
    70%

    9And yf thyne eye offende thee, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: It is better for thee to enter into lyfe with one eye, rather then, hauyng two eyes, to be cast into hell fyre.

  • Exod 22:1
    70%

    1If a man steale an oxe or a sheepe, and kill it, or sell it: he shall restore fiue oxen for an oxe, foure sheepe for a sheepe.

  • Matt 5:29
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    29If thy ryght eye offende thee, plucke it out, and cast it from thee. For better it is vnto thee, that one of thy members perishe, the that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

  • Lev 25:39
    69%

    39If thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poore, and be solde vnto thee, thou shalt not compell hym to serue as a bonde seruaunt:

  • Lev 25:44
    69%

    44Thy bondseruaunt and thy bondemayde which thou shalt haue, shalbe of the heathen that are rounde about you: of them shall ye purchase seruauntes and maydes.

  • Deut 23:15
    69%

    15Thou shalt not deliuer vnto his maister, the seruaunt whiche is escaped from his maister vnto thee.

  • Mark 9:47
    69%

    47And if thine eye offend thee, plucke it out: It is better for thee to go into the kyngdome of God with one eye, then hauing two eyes, to be cast into hell fire: