EX-21:1  Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set

before

them.

EX-21:2  If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve:

and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-21:5  And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master,

my

wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

EX-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 awl; and he shall serve him

for

ever.

EX-21:7  And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she

shall not go out as the menservants do.

EX-21:8  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.

EX-21:9  And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal

with her after the manner of daughters.

EX-21:10  If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment,

and

her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

EX-21:11  And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she

go

out free without money.

EX-21:12  He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely

put

to death.

EX-21:13  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.

EX-21:14  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.

EX-21:15  And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be

surely put to death.

EX-21:16  And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he

be

found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

EX-21:17  And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall

surely be put to death.

EX-21:18  And if men strive together, and one smite another with

a

stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed:

EX-21:19  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.

EX-21:20  And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a

rod,

and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

EX-21:21  Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall

not

be punished: for he [is] his money.

EX-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].

EX-21:23  And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life

for life,

EX-21:24  Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for

foot,

EX-21:25  Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for

stripe.

EX-21:26  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.

EX-21:27  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.

EX-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.

EX-21:29  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.

EX-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.

EX-21:31  Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,

according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

EX-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.

EX-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;

EX-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.

EX-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.

EX-21:36  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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