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1 “Now these are the ordinances which you shall
set before them.
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve
six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. 3 If
he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his
wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears
him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he
shall go out by himself. 5 But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love
my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’ 6 then his
master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the
doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall
serve him for ever.
7 “If a man sells his daughter to be a female
servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. 8 If she doesn’t
please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be
redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has
dealt deceitfully with her. 9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal
with her as a daughter. 10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall
not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. 11 If he
doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any
money.
12 “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall
surely be put to death, 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows
it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. 14 If a
man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall
take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother
shall be surely put to death.
16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or
if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 “Anyone who curses his father or his mother
shall surely be put to death.
18 “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with
a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed; 19 if
he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be
cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his
healing until he is thoroughly healed.
20 “If a man strikes his servant or his maid with
a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. 21 Notwithstanding,
if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his
property.
22 “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so
that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely
fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. 23 But
if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, 24 eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning for burning,
wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
26 “If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his
maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. 27 If
he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he
shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
28 “If a bull gores a man or a woman to death,
the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the
owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. 29 But if the bull had a
habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has
not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned,
and its owner shall also be put to death. 30 If a ransom is laid on him,
then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him. 31 Whether
it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall
be done to him. 32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant,
thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be
stoned.
33 “If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit
and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, 34 the owner
of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead
animal shall be his.
35 “If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that
it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they
shall also divide the dead animal. 36 Or if it is known that the bull was
in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall
surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
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