Exodus 21:18-26

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ Punishments for Personal Injury.^[a]“When people are fighting and one of them injures the other with a stone or with a fist, and this does not kill the other but causes a serious injury, ¹⁹ and yet the injured party is able to walk around with a staff, then the one who struck the blow shall be held to be innocent. He must, however, pay the victim for the time he lost on account of the injury and he must pay for his medical care.

²⁰ “When a man strikes his male or female slave with a staff and kills that slave, he shall surely be punished. ²¹ But if the slave lives for a day or two, the slave-owner shall not be punished, for the slave is his property.

²² “When some men fight and injure a pregnant woman so that she loses her child, but there is no other damage, they will be fined as much as the husband of the woman decides. They will pay in the presence of a judge. ²³ But if further harm results, they will pay a life for a life, ²⁴ an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot, ²⁵ a burning for a burning, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise.

²⁶ “When a man strikes the eye of his male slave or his female slave and blinds the slave, he will free the slave because of the eye.