20 When someone strikes his male or female slave with a rod so that the slave dies under his hand, the act shall certainly be avenged.

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

Exodus 21:20-21, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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