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1 And these are the judgments which thou shalt set In order before them. 2 When thou dost purchase a servant, a son of Israel, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh go forth free, for nothing. 3 If he came in alone, he shall go out alone; if the husband of a wife, his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and the children are the master’s, and he shall go out alone. 5 But if the servant saying shall say, I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free; 6 His master shall bring him before the judges, and shall take him to the door, even to the post, and his master shall bore his ear with an awl; and he shall be to him a working servant forever.
7 And when a man selleth his daughter to be a handmaid, she shall not go out as at the outgoing of the men servants. 8 If she be evil in the eyes of the master who had covenanted with her to be his, then shall he make her free; to another man he shall not have ability to sell her to domineer over her. 9 And if he hath covenanted her to his son, after the custom of the daughters of Israel shall he act towards her. 10 And if he take another to him, her food, her raiment, and her marriage due he shall not restrain. 11 And if these three he doth not perform to her, he shall release her freely without money.
12 Whosoever striketh a man and killeth him, being killed he shall be killed. 13 But if it was not (done) covertly to him, but he was delivered into his hand from before the Lord, then I will appoint thee a place whither he may flee. 14 But when a wicked man acts toward his neighbour with deceitfulness to kill him, even from Mine altar thou shalt bring him away to put him to death.
15 Whosoever striketh his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
16 And whosoever stealeth a soul of the house of Israel and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall be surely put to death.
17 And he who curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18 And when men contend, and a man smiteth his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but fall upon his bed; 19 If he rise (again) and walk about upon his staff, he who smote him shall be acquitted; only he shall make good his loss of labour, and defray the charge of the physician.
20 And when a man smiteth his servant or his handmaid with a staff, and he die under his hand, condemned he shall be condemned. 21 But if he survive one day, or two, he shall not be condemned, because he was his money.
22 If men contending strike a woman with child and she miscarry, but die not, fined he shall be fined, as the husband of the woman may set upon him, and he shall give according to the sentence of judgment. 23 But if death take place, thou shalt give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant or his handmaid and destroy it, he shall let him go free, for the sake of his eye. 27 Or if he beat out (cause to fall) a tooth of his servant or a tooth of his handmaid, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth.
28 If an ox gore a man or woman unto death, the ox being stoned shall be stoned, and his flesh must not be eaten; but the master of the ox shall be acquitted. 29 But if the ox had gored in time before (yesterday and the day before), and it had been attested to his master, and he not keeping him he hath killed man or woman, the ox shall be stoned and the owner be put to death. 30 If a fine of money (if mammon) be laid upon him, he may give redemption for his life according to all that is laid upon him. 31 If the ox gore a son or daughter of Israel, after this judgment shall it be done to him. 32 If an ox gore a man-servant or a maidservant, (the owner) shall give to his master thirty sileen of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 And if a man open a pit, or dig a pit, and doth not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, 34 The master of the pit shall pay: he shall give silver to his owner, and the carcass shall be his own.
35 And if the ox of one man hurt a neighbour’s ox that it die, they shall sell the living ox and divide the money; and that which is dead they shall also divide. 36 But if it be known that the ox gored in time past and his owner did not keep him in, paying he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead one shall be his.
37 If a man steal an ox or a lamb, and kill or sell it, he shall repay five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the lamb.