[1] "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. [2] When
you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he
shall go out free, for nothing. [3] If he comes in single, he shall go out
single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. [4] 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 alone. [5] But
if the slave plainly says, `I love my master, my wife, and my children; I
will not go out free,' [6] then his master shall bring him to God, and he
shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his
ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life. [7] "When a man
sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
[8] If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself,
then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a
foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her. [9] If he
designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. [10]
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her
clothing, or her marital rights. [11] And if he does not do these three
things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
[12] "Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. [13] But
if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then
I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. [14] But if a man
willfully attacks another to kill him treacherously, you shall take him
from my altar, that he may die. [15] "Whoever strikes his father or his
mother shall be put to death. [16] "Whoever steals a man, whether he sells
him or is found in possession of him, shall be put to death. [17] "Whoever
curses his father or his mother shall be put to death. [18] "When men
quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man
does not die but keeps his bed, [19] then if the man rises again and walks
abroad with his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay
for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed. [20] "When
a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies
under his hand, he shall be punished. [21] But if the slave survives a day
or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money. [22] "When
men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a
miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined,
according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as
the judges determine. [23] If any harm follows, then you shall give life
for life, [24] eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
[25] burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. [26] "When a man
strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let
the slave go free for the eye's sake. [27] If he knocks out the tooth of
his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free for the tooth's
sake. [28] "When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be
stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be
clear. [29] But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its
owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a
woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
[30] If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of
his life whatever is laid upon him. [31] If it gores a man's son or
daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule. [32] If the
ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master
thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. [33] "When a man
leaves a pit open, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an
ox or an ass falls into it, [34] the owner of the pit shall make it good;
he shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his. [35]
"When 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 beast also they shall
divide. [36] Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in
the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall pay ox for ox, and the
dead beast shall be his.
