< Exodus 21 >
1 And these [are] the ordinances which you shall set before them.
And these [are] the judgments which you will set before them.
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.
For you will buy a slave Hebrew six years he will serve and in the seventh [year] he will go out to free [person] without paying.
3 If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.
If with body his he will come with body his he will go out if [is the] husband of a wife he and she will go out wife his with him.
4 Moreover, if his master give him a wife, and she have [born] him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master's; and he shall go forth alone.
If master his he will give to him a wife and she will bear to him sons or daughters the woman and children her she will belong to master her and he he will go out with body his.
5 And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away free;
And if carefully he will say the slave I love master my wife my and children my not I will go out a free [person].
6 his master shall bring him to the judgement-seat of God, and then shall he bring him to the door, —to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
And he will bring near him master his to God and he will bring near him to the door or to the doorpost and he will pierce master his ear his with the awl and he will serve him for ever.
7 And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart.
And if he will sell a man daughter his to a female slave not she will go out when go out the [male] slaves.
8 If she be not pleasing to her master, after she has betrothed herself to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has trifled with her.
If she is bad in [the] eyes of master her who (for himself *Q(K)*) he designated her and he will let be ransomed her to a people foreign not he will have dominion to sell her because has dealt treacherously he with her.
9 And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters.
And if for son his he will designate her according to [the] custom of daughters he will do to her.
10 And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship [with him].
If another [woman] he will take for himself food her covering her and right to intercourse her not he will reduce.
11 And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money.
And if three [things] these not he will do for her and she will go out without paying not money.
12 And if any man strike another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.
[one who] will strike anyone And he will die certainly he will be put to death.
13 But as for him that did it not willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give you a place whither the slayer may flee.
And that not he was lying in wait and God he allowed to happen to hand his and I will designate for you a place where he will flee there.
14 And if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to kill him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from my altar to put him to death.
And if he will act presumptuously anyone on neighbor his to kill him with cunning from with altar my you will take him to die.
15 Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.
And [one who] will strike father his and mother his certainly he will be put to death.
16 He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
And [one who] will steal anyone and he will sell him and he will be found in hand his certainly he will be put to death.
17 Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.
And [one who] will curse father his and mother his certainly he will be put to death.
18 And if two men revile each other and strike the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;
And if they will quarrel! men and he will strike anyone neighbor his with a stone or with a fist and not he will die and he will fall to a bed.
19 if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.
If he will arise and he will walk about on the outside on staff his and he will be free from guilt the [one who] struck only sitting still his he will pay for and certainly he will have [him] healed.
20 And if a man strike his man-servant or his maidservant, with a rod, and [the party] die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.
And if he will strike anyone [male] slave his or female slave his with the rod and he will die under hand his certainly he will be avenged.
21 But if [the servant] continue to live a day or two, let not [the master] be punished; for he is his money.
Nevertheless if a day or two days he will remain not he will be avenged for [is] money his he.
22 And if two men strive and strike a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman's husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation.
And if they will struggle together men and they will strike a woman pregnant and they will come out children her and not it will be harm certainly he will be fined just as he will impose on him [the] husband of the woman and he will give for [the] estimate.
23 But if it be perfectly formed, he shall give life for life,
And if harm it will be and you will give a life in place of a life.
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
An eye in place of an eye a tooth in place of a tooth a hand in place of a hand a foot in place of a foot.
25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Burning in place of burning bruise in place of bruise wound in place of wound.
26 And if one strike the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake.
And if he will strike anyone [the] eye of [male] slave his or [the] eye of female slave his and he will destroy it to free [person] he will set free him in place of eye his.
27 And if he should strike out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.
And if [the] tooth of [male] slave his or [the] tooth of female slave his he will knock out to free [person] he will set free him in place of tooth his.
28 And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.
And if it will gore an ox a man or a woman and he will die certainly it will be stoned to death the ox and not it will be eaten meat its and [the] owner of the ox [will be] free from guilt.
29 But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.
And if [will be] an ox prone to gore it from yesterday three days ago and it has been protested on owner its and not he will guard it and it will kill a man or a woman the ox it will be stoned to death and also owner its he will be put to death.
30 And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.
If a ransom it will be imposed on him and he will give [the] ransom of life his according to all that it will be imposed on him.
31 And if [the bull] gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according to this ordinance.
Or a son it will gore or a daughter it will gore according to the judgment this it will be done to him.
32 And if the bull gore a man-servant or maidservant, he shall pay to their master thirty silver didrachmas, and the bull shall be stoned.
If a [male] slave it will gore the ox or a female slave silver - thirty shekels he will give to master his and the ox it will be stoned to death.
33 And if any one open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall in there,
And if he will open anyone a pit or for he will dig anyone a pit and not he will cover it and it will fall there an ox or a donkey.
34 the owner of the pit shall make compensation; he shall give money to their owner, and the dead shall be his own.
[the] owner of The pit he will make compensation silver he will repay to owner its and the dead [animal] it will be[long] to him.
35 And if any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbour, and it die, they shall sell the living bull and divide the money, and they shall divide the dead bull.
And if it will strike [the] ox of anyone [the] ox of neighbor his and it will die and they will sell the ox living and they will divide silver its and also the dead [animal] they will divide!
36 But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past, and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own.
Or it is known that [is] an ox prone to gore it from yesterday three days ago and not he guarded it owner its certainly he will make compensation an ox in place of the ox and the dead [animal] it will be[long] to him.