Exodus 21
1 and these [the] justice: judgement which to set: make to/for face: before their
“Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.
2 for to buy servant/slave Hebrew six year to serve and in/on/with seventh to come out: come to/for free for nothing
“If you buy a Hebrew [Immigrant] servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
3 if in/on/with single/height his to come (in): come in/on/with single/height his to come out: come if master: husband woman: wife he/she/it and to come out: come woman: wife his with him
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 if lord his to give: give(marriage) to/for him woman: wife and to beget to/for him son: child or daughter [the] woman: wife and youth her to be to/for lord her and he/she/it to come out: come in/on/with single/height his
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5 and if to say to say [the] servant/slave to love: lover [obj] lord my [obj] woman: wife my and [obj] son: child my not to come out: come free
But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I 'ahav ·affectionately love· my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
6 and to approach: bring him lord his to(wards) [the] God and to approach: bring him to(wards) [the] door or to(wards) [the] doorpost and to bore lord his [obj] ear his in/on/with awl and to serve him to/for forever: enduring
then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7 and for to sell man [obj] daughter his to/for maidservant not to come out: come like/as to come out: come [the] servant/slave
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
8 if be evil in/on/with eye: appearance lord her which (to/for him *Q(K)*) to appoint her and to ransom her to/for people foreign not to rule to/for to sell her in/on/with to act treacherously he in/on/with her
If she does not please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 and if to/for son: child his to appoint her like/as justice [the] daughter to make: do to/for her
If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her in the mishpat ·manner· of a daughter.
10 if another to take: marry to/for him flesh her covering her and cohabitation her not to dimish
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
11 and if three these not to make: do to/for her and to come out: come for nothing nothing silver: money
If he does not do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
12 to smite man: anyone and to die to die to die
“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
13 and which not to ambush and [the] God to meet to/for hand: power his and to set: appoint to/for you place which to flee there [to]
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
14 and for to boil man: anyone upon neighbor his to/for to kill him in/on/with craftiness from from with altar my to take: take him to/for to die
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 and to smite father his and mother his to die to die
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
16 and to steal man: anyone and to sell him and to find in/on/with hand: power his to die to die
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 and to lighten father his and mother his to die to die
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18 and for to contend [emph?] human and to smite man: anyone [obj] neighbor his in/on/with stone or in/on/with fist and not to die and to fall: fall to/for bed
“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but is confined to bed;
19 if to arise: rise and to go: walk in/on/with outside upon staff his and to clear [the] to smite except cessation his to give: pay and to heal to heal
if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
20 and for to smite man: anyone [obj] servant/slave his or [obj] maidservant his in/on/with tribe: staff and to die underneath: owning hand: owner his to avenge to avenge
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
21 surely if day or day to stand: stand not to avenge for silver: money his he/she/it
Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.
22 and for to struggle human and to strike woman pregnant and to come out: produce youth her and not to be harm to fine to fine like/as as which to set: make upon him master: husband [the] woman and to give: pay in/on/with judge
“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
23 and if harm to be and to give: pay soul: life underneath: instead soul: life
But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
24 eye underneath: instead eye tooth underneath: instead tooth hand underneath: instead hand foot underneath: instead foot
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 burning underneath: instead burning wound underneath: instead wound wound underneath: instead wound
burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
26 and for to smite man: anyone [obj] eye servant/slave his or [obj] eye maidservant his and to ruin her to/for free to send: let go him underneath: because of eye his
“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
27 and if tooth servant/slave his or tooth maidservant his to fall: deserting to/for free to send: let go him underneath: because of tooth his
If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
28 and for to gore cattle [obj] man or [obj] woman and to die to stone to stone [the] cattle and not to eat [obj] flesh his and master [the] cattle innocent
“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
29 and if cattle goring he/she/it from yesterday three days ago and to testify in/on/with master his and not to keep: look at him and to die man or woman [the] cattle to stone and also master his to die
But if the bull had a habit of goring in the 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 bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
30 if ransom to set: make upon him and to give: pay redemption soul: life his like/as all which to set: make upon him
If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.
31 or son: child to gore or daughter to gore like/as justice: judgement [the] this to make: do to/for him
Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
32 if servant/slave to gore [the] cattle or maidservant silver: money thirty shekel to give: pay to/for lord his and [the] cattle to stone
If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels [12 oz; 3/4 lb; 340.2 g] of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 and for to open man: anyone pit or for to pierce man: anyone pit and not to cover him and to fall: fall there [to] cattle or donkey
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
34 master [the] pit to complete silver: money to return: pay to/for master his and [the] to die to be to/for him
the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
35 and for to strike cattle man: anyone [obj] cattle neighbor his and to die and to sell [obj] [the] cattle [the] alive and to divide [obj] silver: price his and also [obj] [the] to die to divide [emph?]
“If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
36 or to know for cattle goring he/she/it from yesterday three days ago and not to keep: look at him master his to complete to complete cattle underneath: instead [the] cattle and [the] to die to be to/for him
Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
