Exodus 21
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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 masters, 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 womans
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 eyes sake.
27 And if he smite out his
manservants tooth, or his maidservants tooth; he shall let him go
free for his tooths 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 mans ox hurt
anothers, 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.
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