Exodus 21:1-32

Exodus 21:1-32

[1] Now these are the judgments  which thou shalt set  before  [2] If thou buy  an Hebrew  servant,  six  years  he shall serve:  and in the seventh  he shall go out  free  for nothing.  [3] If he came in  by himself,  he shall go out  by himself:  if he were married,  then his wife  shall go out  [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.  [5] And if the servant  shall plainly  I love  my master,  my wife,  and my children;  I will not go out  free:  [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.  [7] And if a man  sell  his daughter  to be a maidservant,  she shall not go out  as the menservants  do.  [8] 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. [9] 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,  [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  [16] And he that stealeth  a man,  and selleth  him, or if he be found  in his hand,  he shall surely  [17] And he that curseth  his father,  or his mother,  shall surely  [18] 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  [20] And if a man  smite  his servant,  or his maid,  with a rod,  and he die  under his hand;  he shall be surely  [21] Notwithstanding,  if he continue  a day  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  according as the woman's  husband  will lay  upon him; and he shall pay  as the judges  [23] And if any mischief follow,  then thou shalt give  life  [24] Eye  tooth  hand  foot  [25] Burning  wound  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  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  [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.