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Now these
are the judgments which thou shalt set before
them.
02 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years
he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go
out free for nothing.
03 If he came in by himself, he shall go
out by himself: if he were married, then his wife
shall go out with him.
04 If his master have given him a wife, and
she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and
her children shall be her master's, and he shall
go out by himself.
05 And if the servant shall plainly say, I
love my master, my wife, and my children; I will
not go out free:
06 Then his master shall bring him unto the
judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or
unto the door post; and his master shall bore his
ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him
for ever.
07 And if a man sell his daughter to be a
maidservant, she shall not go out as the
menservants do.
08 If she please not her master, who hath
betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her
be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he
shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt
deceitfully with her.
09 And if he have betrothed her unto his
son, he shall deal with her after the manner of
daughters.
10 If he take him another wife; her food,
her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he
not diminish.
11 And if he do not these three unto her,
then shall she go out free without money.
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die,
shall be surely put to death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God
deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint
thee a place whither he shall flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously upon
his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt
take him from mine altar, that he may die.
15 And he that smiteth his father, or his
mother, shall be surely put to death.
16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth
him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall
surely be put to death.
17 And he that curseth his father, or his
mother, shall surely be put to death.
18 And if men strive together, and one
smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and
he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon
his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit:
only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and
shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
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20 And if a man smite his servant, or his
maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he
shall be surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or
two, he shall not be punished: for he is his
money.
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with
child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet
no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished,
according as the woman's husband will lay upon
him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou
shalt 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 And if a man smite the eye of his
servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish;
he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 And if he smite out his manservant's
tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let
him go free for his tooth's sake.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that
they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and
his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of
the ox shall be quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his
horn in time past, and it hath been testified to
his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that
he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be
stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money,
then he shall give for the ransom of his life
whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 Whether he have gored a son, or have
gored a daughter, according to this judgment
shall it be done unto him.
32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a
maidservant; he shall give unto their master
thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be
stoned.
33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a
man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox
or an ass fall therein;
34 The owner of the pit shall make it good,
and give money unto the owner of them; and the
dead beast shall be his.
35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that
he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and
divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they
shall divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used
to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept
him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the
dead shall be his own.
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