1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set
before them.
2 If
thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he
shall go out free for nothing.
3 If
he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his
wife shall go out with him.
4 If
his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the
wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
5 And
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 unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the
door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an
aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 And
if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the
menservants do.
8 If
she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let
her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power,
seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And
if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner
of daughters.
10 If
he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and
her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11 And
if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12 He
that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
13 And
if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint
thee a place whither he shall flee.
14 But
if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou
shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
15 And
he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
16 And
he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he
shall surely be put to death.
17 And
he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
18 And
if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist,
and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 If
he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be
quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be
thoroughly healed.
20 And
if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand;
he shall be surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding,
if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his
money.
22 If
men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be
surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he
shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And
if any mischief
follow, then 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, stripe for stripe.
26 And
if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish;
he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 And
if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall
let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28 If
an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned,
and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
29 But
if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been
testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a
man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to
death.
30 If
there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his
life whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 Whether
he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall
it be done unto him.
32 If
the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their
master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 And
if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and
an ox or an ass fall therein;
34 The
owner of the pit shall make it good, and give
money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
35 And
if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox,
and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
36 Or
if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath
not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
