^21:26“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it,⁵⁴ he will let the servant⁵⁵ go free⁵⁶ as compensation for the eye.

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Footnotes

54 The form וְשִׁחֲתָהּ (véshikhatah) is the Piel perfect with the vav (ל) consecutive, rendered “and destroys it.” The verb is a strong one, meaning “to ruin, completely destroy.”
55 Heb “him”; the referent (the male or female servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
56 Interestingly, the verb used here for “let him go” is the same verb throughout the first part of the book for “release” of the Israelites from slavery. Here, an Israelite will have to release the injured slave.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.

NLTNew Living Translation

“If a man hits his male or female slave in the eye and the eye is blinded, he must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“ ‘And if a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall release him as free in place of his eye.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

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