Exodus 21:18 requires compensation for injuring a free person; here, striking a slave to death brings penalty but survival yields none, showing different legal status.

Exodus 21:26 gives the law for injuring a slave's eye — freedom rather than punishment — a parallel case to the fatal beating here, showing a spectrum of consequences.

Exodus 21:27 mirrors 21:26 with tooth injury — also granting freedom. This parallel underscores that non-fatal slave injuries result in emancipation, not death.

Exodus 20:13 prohibits murder; this verse applies that command to a slave owner, imposing a penalty for killing a slave.

Genesis 9:6 establishes capital punishment for murder based on man being made in God's image — the theological foundation for punishing a master who kills a slave.

Numbers 35:19 mandates death for murder of a free person, contrasting with the lesser penalty here for killing a slave, highlighting the slave's status as property.

Leviticus 19:20 also treats a slave differently — no death for sexual offense because she is not free — paralleling the reduced penalty here for killing a slave.

Job 31:13 shows a righteous master hearing slaves' complaints, while this law punishes killing a slave — both affirm the master's responsibility toward slaves.