²⁰ “And if a man beats his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

⁴ For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

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

³⁰ Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the ^(A)testimony of witnesses; but one witness is not sufficient testimony against a person for the death penalty. ³¹ Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death. ³² And you shall take 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 priest. ³³ So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood ^(B)defiles the land, and no ^[a]atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except ^(C)by the blood of him who shed it.

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

²⁶ “If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye. ²⁷ And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth.