Exodus 21

1 And these [are] the judgments which you set before them:

Now these are the ordinances which thou shall set before them.

2 When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves [for] six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman for nothing;

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

3 if he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he [is] owner of a wife, then his wife has gone out with him;

If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4 if his lord gives a wife to him, and she has borne sons or daughters to him—the wife and her children are her lord’s, and he goes out by himself.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

5 And if the servant really says: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons—I do not go out free,

But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons, I will not go out free,

6 then his lord has brought him near to God, and has brought him near to the door, or to the doorpost, and his lord has bored his ear with an awl, and he has served him for all time.

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

7 And when a man sells his daughter for a handmaid, she does not go out according to the going out of the menservants;

And if a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

8 if [it is] evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he has not betrothed her, then he has let her be ransomed; he has no power to sell her to a strange people, in his dealing treacherously with her.

If she does not please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he betroths her to his son, he does to her according to the right of daughters.

And if he espouses her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the manner of daughters.

10 If he takes another [woman] for him, he does not withdraw her food, her covering, and her habitation;

If he takes him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.

11 and if he does not do these three for her, then she has gone out for nothing, without money.

And if he does not do these three things to her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money.

12 He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;

He who smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.

13 as for him who has not laid wait, but God has brought [him] to his hand, I have even set a place for you to where he flees.

And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint for thee a place where he shall flee.

14 And when a man presumes against his neighbor to slay him with subtlety, you take him from My altar to die.

And if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with guile, thou shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

15 And he who strikes his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

And he who smites his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

16 And he who steals a man, and has sold him, and he has been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

And he who steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

17 And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

18 And when men contend, and a man has struck his neighbor with a stone, or with the fist, and he does not die, but has fallen on the bed;

And if men contend, and one smites the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed,

19 if he rises, and has gone up and down outside on his staff, then the striker has been acquitted; he only gives [for] his cessation, and he is thoroughly healed.

if he rises again, and walks abroad upon his staff, then he who smote him shall be acquitted. Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

20 And when a man strikes his manservant or his handmaid with a rod, and he has died under his hand—he is certainly avenged;

And if a man smites his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

21 only if he remains a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he [is] his money.

Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.

22 And when men strive, and have struck a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no harm [to them], he is certainly fined as the husband of the woman lays on him, and he has given through the judges;

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.

23 and if there is harm [to them], then you have given life for life,

But if any harm follows, then thou shall give 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 when a man strikes the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his handmaid, and has destroyed it, he sends him away as a freeman for his eye;

And if a man smites the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

27 and if he knocks out a tooth of his manservant or a tooth of his handmaid, he sends him away as a freeman for his tooth.

And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28 And when an ox gores man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox [is] acquitted;

And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.

29 and if the ox is [one] accustomed to gore before, and it has been testified to its owner, and he does not watch it, and it has put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner is also put to death.

But if the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

30 If atonement is laid on him, then he has given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid on him;

If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.

31 whether it gores a son or gores a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.

Whether it has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

32 If the ox gores a manservant or a handmaid, he gives thirty silver shekels to their lord, and the ox is stoned.

If the ox gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33 And when a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey has fallen [in] there—

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,

34 the owner of the pit repays, he gives back money to its owner, and the dead is his.

the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of it, and the dead beast shall be his.

35 And when a man’s ox strikes the ox of his neighbor and it has died, then they have sold the living ox, and halved its money, and they also halve the dead one;

And if one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it, and the dead they shall also divide.

36 or, [if] it has been known that the ox is [one] accustomed to gore before, and its owner does not watch it, he certainly repays ox for ox, and the dead is his.

Or if it be known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.