Exodus:21

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* Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them . * If thou buy a Hebrew servant , six years he shall serve ; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing . * If he come in by himself , he shall go out by himself ; if he be married , then his wife shall go out with him . * If his master give him a wife , and she bear him sons or daughters ; the wife and her children shall be her master 's , and he shall go out by himself . * But if the servant shall plainly say : I love my master , my wife , and my children ; I will not go out free ; * then his master shall bring him unto God , and shall bring him to the door , or unto the door-post ; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl ; and he shall serve him for ever . * And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant , she shall not go out as the men-servants do . * If she please not her master , who hath espoused her to himself , then shall he let her be redeemed ; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power , seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her . * And if he espouse her unto his son , he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters . * If he take him another wife , her food , her raiment , and her conjugal rights , shall he not diminish . * And if he do not these three unto her , then shall she go out for nothing , without money . * He that smiteth a man , so that he dieth , shall surely be put to death . * And if a man lie not in wait , but God cause it to come to hand ; then I will appoint thee a place whither he may flee . * And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour , to slay him with guile ; thou shalt take him from Mine altar , that he may die . * And he that smiteth his father , or his mother , shall be surely put to death . * And he that stealeth a man , and selleth him , or if he be found in his hand , he shall surely be put to death . * And he that curseth his father or his mother , shall surely be put to death . * And if men contend , and one smite the other with a stone , or with his fist , and he die not , but keep his bed ; * if he rise again , and walk abroad upon his staff , 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 bondman , or his bondwoman , with a rod , and he die under his hand , he shall surely be punished . * Notwithstanding if he continue a day or two , he shall not be punished ; for he is his money . * And if men strive together , and hurt a woman with child , so that her fruit depart , and yet no harm follow , he shall be surely fined , according as the woman 's husband shall lay upon him ; and he shall pay as the judges determine . * But if any harm follow , then thou shalt give life for life , * eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot , * burning for burning , wound for wound , stripe for stripe . * And if a man smite the eye of his bondman , or the eye of his bondwoman , and destroy it , he shall let him go free for his eye 's sake . * And if he smite out his bondman 's tooth , or his bondwoman 's tooth , he shall let him go free for his tooth 's sake . * And if an ox gore a man or a woman , that they die , the ox shall be surely stoned , and its flesh shall not be eaten ; but the owner of the ox shall be quit . * But if the ox was wont to gore in time past , and warning hath been given to its owner , and he hath not kept it in , but it hath killed a man or a woman ; the ox shall be stoned , and its owner also shall be put to death . * If there be laid on him a ransom , then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him . * Whether it have gored a son , or have gored a daughter , according to this judgment shall it be done unto him . * If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman , he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver , and the ox shall be stoned . * And if a man shall open a pit , or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it , and an ox or an ass fall therein , * the owner of the pit shall make it good ; he shall give money unto the owner of them , and the dead beast shall be his . * And if one man 's ox hurt another 's , so that it dieth ; then they shall sell the live ox , and divide the price of it ; and the dead also they shall divide . * Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past , and its owner hath not kept it in ; he shall surely pay ox for ox , and the dead beast shall be his own .

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