Exodus:21:18-36

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* 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 : * 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 . * And if a man smite his servant or his maid , with a rod , and he die under his hand , it shall be surely avenged . * Nevertheless , if he continue alive a day or two , it shall not be avenged ; for he is his money . * 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 . * And if any mischief follow , then shalt thou give life for life . * Eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot , * Burning for burning , wound for wound , bruise for bruise . * 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 . * And if he strike out his man –servant ’s tooth , or his maid –servant ’s tooth , he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth . * 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 . * 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 ; * 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 . * If he gore a son , or gore a daughter , according to this judgment shall be done unto him . * If the ox gore a man –servant or a maid –servant , thirty shekels of silver shall he give to his master , and the ox shall be stoned . * 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 : * 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 . * And if one man ’s 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 . * 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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