Exodus 21:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.

New Living Translation
And if a man knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.

English Standard Version
If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.

Berean Study Bible
And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

New American Standard Bible
And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let the slave go free on account of the tooth.

NASB 1995
"And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

NASB 1977
“And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

Amplified Bible
And if he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or female servant, he must let the servant go free because of [the loss of] the tooth.

Christian Standard Bible
If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his tooth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his tooth."

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

Good News Translation
If he knocks out a tooth, he is to free the slave as payment for the tooth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If the owner knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free to make up for the loss of the tooth.

International Standard Version
If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he is to release him as a free man in exchange for his tooth.

NET Bible
If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth.

King James 2000 Bible
And if he knocks out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

New Heart English Bible
If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

World English Bible
If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

A Faithful Version
And if he strikes out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

Darby Bible Translation
And if he knock out his bondman's tooth or his handmaid's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if he shall smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Also if he smite out his seruants tooth, or his maides tooth, he shall let him goe out free for his tooth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Also if he smyte out his seruaunt or his maydes tothe, he shall let them go out free for the tothes sake.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
In like maner yf he smyte out a tothe of his seruaunt or mayde, he shall let them go fre and lowse for the tothes sake.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Also yf he smyte out hys servauntes or his maydes toth, he shall let the go out fre for the tothes sake.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and if he knocks out a tooth of his manservant or a tooth of his handmaid, he sends him away as a freeman for his tooth.

Young's Literal Translation
and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.

Smith's Literal Translation
And if the tooth of his servant or the tooth of his maid he shall cast out, he shall send him forth free for his tooth.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Likewise, if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female servant, he shall similarly release them freely.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And if he will knock out a tooth of his Servant or a tooth of his Maidservant, he will send that person away as a person of freedom for the sake of his tooth.

Lamsa Bible
And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or the tooth of his maidservant, he must let him go free for his tooth's sake.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if he should smite out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maid-servant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.
















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