Exodus:21:1-22
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Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them .
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If thou buy an Hebrew servant ,
six years he shall serve :
and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing .
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If he came in by himself ,
he shall go out by himself :
if he were married ,
then his wife shall go out with him .
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If his master have given him a wife ,
and she have born him sons or daughters ;
the wife and her children shall be her master '
s ,
and he shall go out by himself .
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And if the servant shall plainly say ,
I love my master ,
my wife ,
and my children ;
I will not go out free :
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Then his master shall bring him unto the judges ;
he shall also bring him to the door ,
or unto the door post ;
and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul ;
and he shall serve him for ever .
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And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant ,
she shall not go out as the menservants do .
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If she please not her master ,
who hath betrothed her to himself ,
then shall he let her be redeemed :
to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power ,
seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her .
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And if he have betrothed her unto his son ,
he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters .
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If he take him another wife ;
her food ,
her raiment ,
and her duty of marriage ,
shall he not diminish .
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And if he do not these three unto her ,
then shall she go out free without money .
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He that smiteth a man ,
so that he die ,
shall be surely put to death .
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And if a man lie not in wait ,
but God deliver him into his hand ;
then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee .
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But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour ,
to slay him with guile ;
thou shalt take him from mine altar ,
that he may die .
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And he that smiteth his father ,
or his mother ,
shall be surely put to death .
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And he that stealeth a man ,
and selleth him ,
or if he be found in his hand ,
he shall surely be put to death .
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And he that curseth his father ,
or his mother ,
shall surely be put to death .
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And if men strive together ,
and one smite another with a stone ,
or with his fist ,
and he die not ,
but keepeth his bed :
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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 .
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And if a man smite his servant ,
or his maid ,
with a rod ,
and he die under his hand ;
he shall be surely punished .
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Notwithstanding ,
if he continue a day or two ,
he shall not be punished :
for he is his money .
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If men strive ,
and hurt a woman with child ,
so that her fruit depart from her ,
and yet no 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 .