Exodus 21

1 And these [are] the ordinances which you shall set before them.

These are the judgments which thou shalt 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.

If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

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.

With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out 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.

But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters: the woman and her children shall be her master’s: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.

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 the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

6 his master shall bring him to the judgment-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.

His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

7 And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart.

If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

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 displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

9 And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters.

But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10 And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship [with him].

And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

11 And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money.

If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

12 And if any man strike another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.

He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall 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.

But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.

14 And if any one lie in wait for his neighbor to kill him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from my altar to put him to death.

If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar, that he may die.

15 Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.

He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

16 He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.

He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of guilt, shall 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.

He that curseth his father, or mother, shall die the 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;

If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his 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 rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

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.

He that striketh his bondman or bondwoman with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

21 But if [the servant] continue to live a day or two, let not [the master] be punished; for he is his money.

But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

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.

If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman’s husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.

23 But if it be perfectly formed, he shall give life for life,

But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life.

24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

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.

If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.

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.

Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.

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.

If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

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.

But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, an his owner also shall 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.

And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

31 And if [the bull] gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according to this ordinance.

If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.

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 he assault a bondman or a bond woman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

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,

If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,

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 shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

35 And if any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbor, and it die, they shall sell the living bull and divide the money, and they shall divide the dead bull.

If one man’s ox gore another man’s ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:

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.

But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday and the day before, and his master did not keep him in: he shall pay ox for ox, and shall take the whole carcass.