Exod 21
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Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
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If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall
go out free for nothing.
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If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife
shall go out with him.
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If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her
children shall be her master`s, and he shall go out by himself.
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But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children;
I will not go out free:
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then his master shall bring him to God, and shall 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 for ever.
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And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants
do.
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If she please not her master, who has espoused her to himself, then shall he let her
be redeemed: to sell her to a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he has
dealt deceitfully with her.
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And if he espouse her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
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If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall
he not diminish.
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And if he do not these three things to her, then shall she go out for nothing, without
money.
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He who smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.
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And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint
you a place where he shall flee.
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And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you shall
take him from mine altar, that he may die.
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And he who smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
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And he who steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely
be put to death.
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And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he
die not, but keep his bed;
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if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he who 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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And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand;
he shall surely be punished.
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Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is
his money.
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And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart,
and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman`s husband
shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
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But if any harm follow, then you shall give life for life,
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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it;
he shall let him go free for his eye`s sake.
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And if he smite out his man-servant`s tooth, or his maid-servant`s tooth, he shall
let him go free for his tooth`s sake.
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And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its
flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
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But if the ox was wont to gore in time 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 ox shall be stoned,
and its owner also shall be put to death.
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If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life
whatever is laid upon him.
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Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment
shall it be done to him.
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If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given to their master
thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
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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,
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the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to its owner,
and the dead [beast] shall be his.
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And if one man`s ox hurt another`s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live
ox, and divide the price of it: and the dead also they shall divide.
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Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner has not
kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] shall be his own.