 1 These are the judgments that you shall set before them. 2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years. And in the seventh he shall go out free. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he was married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will be her master's and he will go out by himself. 5 If the servant plainly says, I love my master, my wife, and my children. I do not want to go out free, 6 his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also 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 If a man sells his daughter to be a maid servant, she shall not go out as the men servants do. 8 If she does not please her master who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no authority+ to sell her to a strange nation since he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9 If he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her as with daughters. 10 If he takes another wife, her food, her clothing, and her duty of marriage shall not be lessened. 11 If he does not do these three to her, then she shall go out free without money. 12 Anyone who strikes another so that they die shall surely be put to death. 13 If a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint a place where he shall flee. 14 But if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile, you shall take him from my altar so that he may die. 15 One who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 16 One who steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 One who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 18 If men strive together and one strikes another with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed; 19 if he rises again and walks abroad upon his staff, then the one who struck him shall be set free. Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be completely healed. 20 If a man strikes his servant, or his maid servant, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. 21 But if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished. For he is his money. 22 If men strive and hurt a woman pregnant with child so that her child comes out, and yet there is no injury, he shall surely be punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him. He shall pay as the judges determine. 23 If any injury occurs, then you shall give life for life. 24 Eye for eye. Tooth for tooth. Hand for hand. Foot for foot. 25 Burning for burning. Wound for wound. Stripe for stripe. 26 If a man strike the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it perishes, he shall let them go free on account of the eye. 27 If he strikes out his man servant's tooth or his maid servant's tooth, he shall let them go free on account of the tooth. 28 If an ox gores a man or woman so that they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned and his flesh shall not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall be set free. 29 But if the ox was apt to gore in time past and the owner has been told and has not kept him in but it has killed a man or a woman, then the ox shall be stoned and the owner shall also be put to death. 30 If a sum of money is placed on him, then he shall give as a ransom whatever value is placed on him. 31 Whether he has gored a son or a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. 32 If the ox shall gore a man servant or a maid servant, he shall give to their master 30 shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 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 shall make it good and give silver to its owner. And the dead shall be his. 35 In the event a man's ox damages his neighbor's ox so that it dies, then sell the living ox and divide the money and also divide the dead ox. 36 Or if it is known that the ox has been apt to gore in time past and his owner has not kept him in, then he shall surely pay ox for ox and the dead shall be his own.
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