²⁰ “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.

⁴ for ^(A)he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, ^(B)an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

^21 (A)Your eye shall not pity. ^(B)It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

³⁰ “If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the ^(A)evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. ³¹ Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. ³² And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. ³³ You shall not ^(B)pollute the land in which you live, for blood ^(C)pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except ^(D)by the blood of the one who shed it.

^19 (A)The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

²⁶ “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. ²⁷ If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.