geneva - Exodus:21-22

geneva@Exodus:21:1 @ Now these are the lawes, which thou shalt set before them:

geneva@Exodus:21:2 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:3 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:4 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:5 @ But if the seruant saye thus, I loue my master, my wife and my children, I will not goe out free,

geneva@Exodus:21:6 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:7 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:8 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:9 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:10 @ If he take (note:)For his son.(:note) him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

geneva@Exodus:21:11 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:12 @ He that smiteth a man, and he die, shal dye the death.

geneva@Exodus:21:13 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:14 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:15 @ Also hee that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die the death.

geneva@Exodus:21:16 @ And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, if it be founde with him, shal die the death.

geneva@Exodus:21:17 @ And hee that curseth his father or his mother, shall die the death.

geneva@Exodus:21:18 @ 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:

geneva@Exodus:21:19 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:20 @ And if a man smite his seruant, or his maide with a rod, and he die vnder his hande, he shalbe surely punished.

geneva@Exodus:21:21 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:22 @ 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].

geneva@Exodus:21:23 @ But if death followe, then thou shalt paye life for life,

geneva@Exodus:21:24 @

geneva@Exodus:21:25 @ Burning for burning, wound for wounde, stripe for stripe.

geneva@Exodus:21:26 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:27 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:28 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:29 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:30 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:31 @ Whether he hath gored a sonne or gored a daughter, he shalbe iudged after the same maner.

geneva@Exodus:21:32 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:33 @ 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,

geneva@Exodus:21:34 @ 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.

geneva@Exodus:21:35 @ And if a mans oxe hurt his neighbours oxe that he die, then they shal sel the liue oxe, & deuide the money thereof, and the dead oxe also they shall deuide.

geneva@Exodus:21:36 @ Or if it bee knowen that the oxe hath vsed to push in times past, & his master hath not kept him, he shal pay oxe for oxe, but the dead shall be his owne.

geneva@Exodus:22:1 @ If a man shall steal an (note:)Either a great beast of the herd, or a small beast of the flock.(:note) ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

geneva@Exodus:22:2 @ If a thief be found (note:)Breaking a house to enter in, or undermining.(:note) breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.

geneva@Exodus:22:3 @ If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] (note:)He shall be put to death that kills him.(:note) blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

geneva@Exodus:22:4 @ If the theft bee founde with him, aliue, (whether it be oxe, asse, or sheepe) he shal restore the double.

geneva@Exodus:22:5 @ If a man doe hurt fielde, or vineyarde, and put in his beast to feed in an other mans fielde, he shall recompence of the best of his owne fielde, and of the best of his owne vineyard.

geneva@Exodus:22:6 @ If fire breake out, and catche in ye thornes, and the stackes of corne, or the standing corne, or the fielde be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution.

geneva@Exodus:22:7 @ If a man deliuer his neighbour money or stuffe to keepe, and it be stollen out of his house, if the thiefe be found, he shall pay the double.

geneva@Exodus:22:8 @ If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, [to see] whether he have (note:)That is, whether he has stolen.(:note) put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

geneva@Exodus:22:9 @ In all maner of trespasse, whether it bee for oxen, for asse, for sheepe, for raiment, or for any maner of lost thing, which an other chalengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shal come before the iudges, and whom the Iudges condemne, he shall pay the double vnto his neighbour.

geneva@Exodus:22:10 @ If a man deliuer vnto his neighbour to keepe asse, or oxe, or sheepe, or any beast, and it die, or be hurt, or taken away by enemies, and no man see it,

geneva@Exodus:22:11 @

geneva@Exodus:22:12 @ But if it be stollen fro him, he shal make restitution vnto the owner thereof.

geneva@Exodus:22:13 @ If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring (note:)He shall show some part of the beast or bring in witnesses.(:note) it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn.

geneva@Exodus:22:14 @ And if a man borow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or els die, the owner thereof not being by, he shal surely make it good.

geneva@Exodus:22:15 @ [But] if the owner thereof [be] with it, he shall not make [it] good: if it [be] an hired [thing], it (note:)He that hired it shall be free by paying the hire.(:note) came for his hire.

geneva@Exodus:22:16 @ And if a man entise a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, hee shall endowe her, and take her to his wife.

geneva@Exodus:22:17 @ If her father refuse to giue her to him, hee shal pay money, according to ye dowry of virgins.

geneva@Exodus:22:18 @ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue.

geneva@Exodus:22:19 @ Whosoeuer lieth with a beast, shall dye the death.

geneva@Exodus:22:20 @ Hee that offereth vnto any gods, saue vnto the Lord onely, shalbe slaine.

geneva@Exodus:22:21 @ Moreouer, thou shalt not do iniurie to a stranger, neither oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:22:22 @ Ye shall not trouble any widowe, nor fatherlesse childe.

geneva@Exodus:22:23 @ If thou vexe or trouble such, and so he call and cry vnto me, I will surely heare his cry.

geneva@Exodus:22:24 @ And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your (note:)The just plague of God on the oppressors.(:note) wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

geneva@Exodus:22:25 @ If thou lende money to my people, that is, to the poore with thee, thou shalt not bee as an vsurer vnto him: yee shall not oppresse him with vsurie.

geneva@Exodus:22:26 @ If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe:

geneva@Exodus:22:27 @ For that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he (note:)For cold and necessity.(:note) crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.

geneva@Exodus:22:28 @ Thou shalt not raile vpon the Iudges, neither speake euil of the ruler of thy people.

geneva@Exodus:22:29 @ Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the (note:)Your abundance of your corn.(:note) first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

geneva@Exodus:22:30 @ Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen & with thy sheepe: seuen dayes it shall bee with his damme, and the eight day thou shalt giue it me.

geneva@Exodus:22:31 @ And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it (note:)And so have nothing to do with it.(:note) to the dogs.

geneva@Exodus:23:1 @ Thou shalt not receiue a false tale, neyther shalt thou put thine hande with the wicked, to be a false witnes.