Exodus:21

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* And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them . * If thou buy a Hebrew bondman , six years shall he serve ; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing . * If he came in alone , he shall go out alone : if he had a wife , then his wife shall go out with him . * If his master have given him a wife , and she have borne him sons or daughters , the wife and her children shall be her master 's , and he shall go out alone . * But if the bondman shall say distinctly , I love my master , my wife , and my children , I will not go free ; * then his master shall bring him before the judges , and shall bring him to the door , or to the door-post ; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl ; and he shall be his bondman for ever . * And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid , she shall not go out as the bondmen go out . * If she is unacceptable in the eyes of her master , who had taken her for himself , then shall he let her be ransomed : to sell her unto a foreign people he hath no power , after having dealt unfaithfully with her . * And if he have appointed her unto his son , he shall deal with her after the law of daughters . * If he take himself another , her food , her clothing , and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish . * And if he do not these three things unto her , then shall she go out free without money . * He that striketh a man , so that he die , shall certainly be put to death . * But if he have not lain in wait , and God have delivered [him ] into his hand , I will appoint thee a place to which he shall flee . * But if a man act wantonly toward his neighbour , and slay him with guile , thou shalt take him from mine altar , that he may die . * And he that striketh his father , or his mother , shall certainly be put to death . * And he that stealeth a man , and selleth him , or if he be found in his hand , he shall certainly be put to death . * And he that curseth his father , or his mother , shall certainly be put to death . * And if men dispute , and one strike the other with a stone , or with the fist , and he die not , but take to [his ] bed , * -- if he rise , and walk abroad upon his staff , then shall he that struck [him ] be guiltless ; only he shall pay [for ] the loss of his time , and shall cause [him ] to be thoroughly healed . * And if a man strike his bondman or his handmaid with a staff , and he die under his hand , he shall certainly be avenged . * Only , if he continue [to live ] a day or two days , he shall not be avenged ; for he is his money . * And if men strive together , and strike a woman with child , so that she be delivered , and no mischief happen , he shall in any case be fined , according as the woman 's husband shall impose on him , and shall give it as the judges estimate . * But if mischief happen , then thou shalt give life for life , * eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot , * branding for branding , wound for wound , stripe for stripe . * And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid , and it be marred , he shall let him go for his eye . * And if he knock out his bondman 's tooth or his handmaid 's tooth , he shall let him go free for his tooth . * And if an ox gore a man or a woman , so that they die , then the ox shall certainly be stoned , and its flesh shall not be eaten ; but the owner of the ox shall be guiltless . * But if the ox have gored heretofore , and it have been testified to its owner , and he have not kept it in , and it kill a man or a woman , -- the ox shall be stoned , and its owner also shall be put to death . * If there be imposed on him a satisfaction , then he shall give the ransom of his life , according to what is imposed on him . * Whether it gore a son or gore a daughter , according to this judgment shall it be done to him . * If the ox gore a bondman or a handmaid , he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver , 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 into it , * the owner of the pit shall make it good , shall give money to the owner of them ; and the dead [ox ] shall be his . * -- And if one man 's ox gore his neighbour 's ox , and it die , then they shall sell the live ox , and divide the money thereof , and divide the dead also . * Or if it be known that the ox have gored heretofore , and its owner have not kept him in , he shall in any case restore ox for ox ; and the dead shall be his .

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