Exodus 21
1 'And these [are] the judgments which thou dost set before them:
These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 'When thou buyest a Hebrew servant — six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3 if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he [is] owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;
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 if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters — the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself.
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 really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons — I do not go out free;
And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:
6 then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him — to the age.
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 when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;
If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.
8 if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously 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 to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.
But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 'If another [woman] he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;
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 these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.
If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.
12 'He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;
He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.
13 as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth 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 when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.
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 'And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.
16 'And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.
He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of guilt, shall be put to death.
17 'And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
He that curseth his father, or mother, shall die the death.
18 'And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the 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 he rise, and hath gone up and down without on his staff, then hath the smiter been acquitted; only his cessation he giveth, and he is thoroughly healed.
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 when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand — he is certainly avenged;
He that striketh his bondman or bondwoman with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.
21 only if he remain a day, or two days, he is not avenged, 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 when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges;
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 and if there is mischief, then thou hast given 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 when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;
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 a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.
Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.
28 'And when an ox doth gore 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;
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 and if the ox is [one] accustomed to gore heretofore, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he doth not watch it, and it hath put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner also is put to death.
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 'If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him;
And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 whether it gore a son or gore a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.
If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.
32 'If the ox gore a man-servant or a handmaid, thirty silver shekels he doth give to their lord, and the ox is 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 when a man doth open a pit, or when a man doth dig a pit, and doth not cover it, and an ox or ass hath fallen thither, —
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 doth repay, money he doth give back to its owner, and the dead is his.
The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.
35 'And when a man's ox doth smite the ox of his neighbour, and it hath died, then they have sold the living ox, and halved its money, and also the dead one they do halve;
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 or, it hath been known that the ox is [one] accustomed to gore heretofore, and its owner doth not watch it, he certainly repayeth ox for ox, and the dead is his.
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.
