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EXODUS · Chapter 21
21:1 Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.
21:2 If you buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in
the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were
married, then his wife shall go out with him.
21:4 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.
21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife,
and my children; I will not go out free:
21:6 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.
21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall
not go out as the male servants do.
21:8 If she please not her master, who has 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 has dealt deceitfully with her.
21:9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with
her after the manner of daughters.
21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty
of marriage, shall he not diminish.
21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out
free without money.
21:12 He that strikes a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to
death.
21:13 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.
21:14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay
him with guile; you shall take him from mine altar, that he may die.
21:15 And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely
put to death.
21:16 And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in
his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
21:17 And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be
put to death.
21:18 And if men strive together, and one strike another with a stone,
or with his fist, and he die not, but keeps his bed:
21:19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall
he that stroke him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time,
and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
21:20 And if a man strike his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and
he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be
punished: for he is his money.
21:22 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.
21:23 And if any mischief follow, then you shall give life for life,
21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
21:26 And if a man strike 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.
21:27 And if he strike out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's
tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
21:28 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.
21:29 But if the ox were known to push with his horn in time past,
and it has been testified to his owner, and he has not kept him in, but
that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner
also shall be put to death.
21:30 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.
21:31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according
to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
21:32 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.
21:33 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;
21:34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto
the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
21:35 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.
21:36 Or if it be known that the ox has used to push in time past,
and his owner has not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the
dead shall be his own.
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