Exodus:21

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* Now these are the lawes , which thou shalt set before them : * If thou buy an Hebrew servant , six years he shall serve : and in the seventh he shall go out free for (note :)Paying no money for his freedom .(:note ) nothing . * If he (note :)Not having wife nor children .(:note ) came in by himself , he shall go out by himself : if he were married , then his wife shall go out with him . * If his master have given him a wife , and she have born him sons or daughters ; the wife and her children shall be her (note :)Till her time of servitude was expired which might be the seventh year or the fiftieth .(:note ) master 's , and he shall go out by himself . * But if the seruant saye thus , I loue my master , my wife and my children , I will not goe out free , * Then his master shall bring him unto the judges ; he shall also bring him to the (note :)Where the judges sat .(:note ) door , or unto the door post ; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul ; and he shall serve him for That is , to the year of Jubile , which was every fiftieth year . ever . * And if a man (note :)Forced either by poverty , or else with the intent that the master should marry her .(:note ) sell his daughter to be a maidservant , she shall not go out as the menservants do . * If she please not her master , who hath betrothed her to himself , then shall (note :)By giving another money to buy her from him .(:note ) he let her be redeemed : to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power , seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her . * And if he have betrothed her unto his son , he shall deal with her (note :)That is , he shall give his dowry .(:note ) after the manner of daughters . * If he take (note :)For his son .(:note ) him another [wife ]; her food , her raiment , and her duty of marriage , shall he not diminish . * And if he do not these (note :)Neither marry her himself , nor give another money to buy her , nor bestow her on his son .(:note ) three unto her , then shall she go out free without money . * He that smiteth a man , and he die , shal dye the death . * And if a man lie not in wait , but (note :)Though a man be killed unawares , yet it is God 's providence that it should so be .(:note ) God deliver [him ] into his hand ; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee . * But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour , to slay him with guile ; thou shalt take him from mine (note :)The holiness of the place should not defend the murderer .(:note ) altar , that he may die . * Also hee that smiteth his father or his mother , shall die the death . * And he that stealeth a man , and selleth him , if it be founde with him , shal die the death . * And hee that curseth his father or his mother , shall die the death . * And if men strive together , and one smite another with a (note :)Either far away from him or near .(:note ) stone , or with [his ] fist , and he die not , but keepeth [his ] bed : * If he rise again , and walk abroad upon his staff , then shall he that smote [him ] be (note :)By the civil justice .(:note ) 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 seruant , or his maide with a rod , and he die vnder his hande , he shalbe surely punished . * Notwithstanding , if he continue a day or two , he shall not (note :)By the civil magistrate , but before God he is a murderer .(:note ) be punished : for he [is ] his money . * If men strive , and hurt a woman with child , so that her fruit depart [from her ], and yet no (note :)Or , «death »: of the mother or child in the event she miscarries . Also the death on the unborn infant .(:note ) mischief follow : he shall be surely punished , according as the woman 's husband will lay upon him ; and he shall pay as the judges [determine ]. * But if death followe , then thou shalt paye life for life , * * Burning for burning , wound for wounde , stripe for stripe . * And if a man smite his seruant in the eie , or his maide in the eye , and hath perished it , hee shall let him goe free for his eye . * And if he smite (note :)So God revenges cruelty in the even the least things .(:note ) out his manservant 's tooth , or his maidservant 's tooth ; he shall let him go free for his tooth 's sake . * If an ox gore a man or a woman , that they die : then the ox shall be surely (note :)If the beast be punished , much more shall the murderer .(:note ) stoned , and his flesh shall not be eaten ; but the owner of the ox [shall be ] quit . * If the oxe were wont to push in times past , and it hath bene tolde his master , and hee hath not kept him , and after he killeth a man or a woman , the oxe shall be stoned , and his owner shall die also . * If there be laid on him a (note :)By the next of the kindred of him that is so slain .(:note ) sum of money , then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him . * Whether he hath gored a sonne or gored a daughter , he shalbe iudged after the same maner . * If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant ; he shall give unto their master thirty (note :)Read ( Gen_23:15 ).(:note ) shekels of silver , and the ox shall be stoned . * And when a man shall open a well , or when he shall dig a pit and couer it not , and an oxe or an asse fall therein , * The owner of the pit shall (note :)This law forbids not only to hurt , but to beware lest any be hurt .(:note ) make [it ] good , [and ] give money unto the owner of them ; and the dead [beast ] shall be his . * And if a mans oxe hurt his neighbours oxe that he die , then they shal sel the liue oxe , &amp ; deuide the money thereof , and the dead oxe also they shall deuide . * Or if it bee knowen that the oxe hath vsed to push in times past , &amp ; his master hath not kept him , he shal pay oxe for oxe , but the dead shall be his owne .

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