lesserot

lesserot@Exodus:21:1 @ And these are the laws of justice which thou shalt set before them.

lesserot@Exodus:21:2 @ If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

lesserot@Exodus:21:3 @ If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was the husband of a woman, then shall his wife go out with him.

lesserot@Exodus:21:4 @ If his master should give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters: the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself.

lesserot@Exodus:21:5 @ And if the servant should plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

lesserot@Exodus:21:6 @ Then shall his master bring him unto the judges, and he shall bring him to the door, or unto the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him till the jubilee.

lesserot@Exodus:21:7 @ And if a man sell his daughter for a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants go out.

lesserot@Exodus:21:8 @ If she please not her master, to whom he hath assigned her, then shall he aid her to be redeemed: unto a strange nation he shall have no power to sell her, seeing he hath dealt faithlessly with her.

lesserot@Exodus:21:9 @ And if he should assign her unto his son, then shall he do unto her after the right of the daughters.

lesserot@Exodus:21:10 @ If he take himself another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

lesserot@Exodus:21:11 @ And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free, without money.

lesserot@Exodus:21:12 @ He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall surely be put to death.

lesserot@Exodus:21:13 @ And if he did not lie in wait, but God let it come into his hand, then will I appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

lesserot@Exodus:21:14 @ But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile, from my altar shalt thou take him, that he may die.

lesserot@Exodus:21:15 @ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

lesserot@Exodus:21:16 @ And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, and he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

lesserot@Exodus:21:17 @ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

lesserot@Exodus:21:18 @ And if men strive together, and one smite the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

lesserot@Exodus:21:19 @ If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his crutch, 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.

lesserot@Exodus:21:20 @ And if a man smite his servant or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand, it shall be surely avenged.

lesserot@Exodus:21:21 @ Nevertheless, if he continue alive a day or two, it shall not be avenged; for he is his money.

lesserot@Exodus:21:22 @ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her children depart from her, and yet no farther mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the husband of the woman will lay upon him; and he shall pay this by the decision of the judges.

lesserot@Exodus:21:23 @ And if any mischief follow, then shalt thou give life for life.

lesserot@Exodus:21:24 @ Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

lesserot@Exodus:21:25 @ Burning for burning, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

lesserot@Exodus:21:26 @ 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 the sake of his eye.

lesserot@Exodus:21:27 @ And if he strike out his manservants tooth, or his maidservants tooth, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth.

lesserot@Exodus:21:28 @ If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he die: then shall the ox be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

lesserot@Exodus:21:29 @ But if the ox were wont to gore in time past, and warning have been given to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, and he killeth a man or a woman: the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also should of right be put to death;

lesserot@Exodus:21:30 @ But there shall be laid on him a sum of money in atonement, and he shall give the ransom of his life whatsoever may be laid upon him.

lesserot@Exodus:21:31 @ If he gore a son, or gore a daughter, according to this judgment shall be done unto him.

lesserot@Exodus:21:32 @ If the ox gore a manservant or a maidservant, thirty shekels of silver shall he give to his master, and the ox shall be stoned.

lesserot@Exodus:21:33 @ And if a man open a pit, or if a man dig a pit, and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein:

lesserot@Exodus:21:34 @ The owner of the pit shall make it good, he shall make restitution in money unto the owner thereof; and the dead beast shall be his.

lesserot@Exodus:21:35 @ And if one mans ox hurt the ox of another, that he die: then shall they sell the live ox, and divide his money; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

lesserot@Exodus:21:36 @ But if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in: he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall belong to him.

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