Exodus:21

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bbe @Exodus:21:1 @Now these are the laws which you are to put before them . bbe @Exodus:21:2 @If you get a Hebrew servant for money , he is to be your servant for six years , and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment . bbe @Exodus:21:3 @If he comes to you by himself , let him go away by himself : if he is married , let his wife go away with him . bbe @Exodus:21:4 @If his master gives him a wife , and he gets sons or daughters by her , the wife and her children will be the property of the master , and the servant is to go away by himself . bbe @Exodus:21:5 @But if the servant says clearly , My master and my wife and children are dear to me ; I have no desire to be free : bbe @Exodus:21:6 @Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house , and at the door , or at its framework , he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument ; and he will be his servant for ever . bbe @Exodus:21:7 @And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant , she is not to go away free as the men-servants do . bbe @Exodus:21:8 @If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself , let a payment be made for her so that she may go free ; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land , because he has been false to her . bbe @Exodus:21:9 @And if he gives her to his son , he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter . bbe @Exodus:21:10 @And if he takes another woman , her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less . bbe @Exodus:21:11 @And if he does not do these three things for her , she has the right to go free without payment . bbe @Exodus:21:12 @He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death . bbe @Exodus:21:13 @But if he had no evil purpose against him , and God gave him into his hand , I will give you a place to which he may go in flight . bbe @Exodus:21:14 @But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose , to put him to death by deceit , you are to take him from my altar and put him to death bbe @Exodus:21:15 @Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death . bbe @Exodus:21:16 @Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death , if you take him in the act . bbe @Exodus:21:17 @Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death . bbe @Exodus:21:18 @If , in a fight , one man gives another a blow with a stone , or with the shut hand , not causing his death , but making him keep in bed ; bbe @Exodus:21:19 @If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick , the other will be let off ; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time , and see that he is cared for till he is well . bbe @Exodus:21:20 @If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod , causing death , he is certainly to undergo punishment . bbe @Exodus:21:21 @But , at the same time , if the servant goes on living for a day or two , the master is not to get punishment , for the servant is his property . bbe @Exodus:21:22 @If men , while fighting , do damage to a woman with child , causing the loss of the child , but no other evil comes to her , the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband , in agreement with the decision of the judges . bbe @Exodus:21:23 @But if damage comes to her , let life be given in payment for life , bbe @Exodus:21:24 @Eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot , bbe @Exodus:21:25 @Burning for burning , wound for wound , blow for blow . bbe @Exodus:21:26 @If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye , causing its destruction , he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye . bbe @Exodus:21:27 @Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow , he will let him go free on account of his tooth . bbe @Exodus:21:28 @If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman , the ox is to be stoned , and its flesh may not be used for food ; but the owner will not be judged responsible . bbe @Exodus:21:29 @But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past , and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control , so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman , not only is the ox to be stoned , but its owner is to be put to death . bbe @Exodus:21:30 @If a price is put on his life , let him make payment of whatever price is fixed . bbe @Exodus:21:31 @If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused , the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule . bbe @Exodus:21:32 @If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox , the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver , and the ox is to be stoned . bbe @Exodus:21:33 @If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up , and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death ; bbe @Exodus:21:34 @The owner of the hole is responsible ; he will have to make payment to their owner , but the dead beast will be his . bbe @Exodus:21:35 @And if one man 's ox does damage to another man 's ox , causing its death , then the living ox is to be exchanged for money , and division made of the price of it , and of the price of the dead one . bbe @Exodus:21:36 @But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past , and its owner has not kept it under control , he will have to give ox for ox ; and the dead beast will be his .

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