◄ Exodus 21:21 ►
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Good News Translation
But if the slave does not die for a day or two, the master is not to be punished. The loss of his property is punishment enough.

New Revised Standard Version
But if the slave survives a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner’s property.

Contemporary English Version
However, if the slave lives a few days after the beating, you are not to be punished. After all, you have already lost the services of that slave who was your property.

New American Bible
If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

Leviticus 25:45,46 And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land. These you shall have for servants: . . .

Context
Personal Injury Laws
…20He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime. 21But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.22If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:20
He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

Leviticus 25:44
Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:

Exodus 21:20
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