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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Gill's Exposition
If a man smite the eye of his servant,.... Give him a blow on the eye in a passion, as a correction for some fault he has committed:
or the eye of his maid, that it perish; strike her on that part…
Freedom was the proper equivalent for permanent injury.
Adam Clarke
If a man smite the eye, etc. - See the following verse.
Observe here,
I. The particular care which the law took of women with child, that no hurt should be done them which might occasion their mis-carrying. The law of nature obliges us to be very tender in…
Striking out the eye or tooth of a slave. The person of slave being not as valuable as that of a free man, the lex talionis(vv.23 25) is not applicable in his case (cf. Ḥamm. § 199, as compared with §…
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