Exodus 21

21"These are the ordinances that you are to set before them.H4941H7760H64402"When you acquire a Hebrew servant he shall serve for six years, and in the seventh he shall go out a free man without paying anything.H7069H5680H5650H8337H8141H5647H7637H3318H2670H26003If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he was married, his wife shall go out with him.H935H1610H3318H1610H1167H802H802H33184If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and children belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself.H113H5414H802H3205H1121H1323H802H3206H113H3318H16105"But if the servant, in fact, says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children and I won't go out a free man,'H5650H559H559H157H113H802H1121H3318H26706then his master shall bring him before the judges and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. His master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him permanently.H113H5066H430H5066H1817H4201H113H7527H241H4836H5647H57697"When a man sells his daughter as a servant, she won't go out as the male servants do.H376H4376H1323H519H3318H5650H33188If she's displeasing to her master who selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He does not have the right to sell her to foreign people because he has dealt unfairly with her.H7451H5869H113H3259H6299H4376H5237H5971H4910H8989If he has selected her for his son, he shall treat her according to the ordinance for daughters.H3259H1121H6213H4941H132310If he takes another woman for himself, he may not withhold from the first her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.H3947H312H7607H3682H5772H163911If he does not do these three things for her, she may go out without paying anything at all.H6213H7969H3318H2600H370112"Whoever strikes a man so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.H5221H376H4191H4191H419113If he didn't lie in wait, but God let him fall into his control, then I'll appoint for you a place to which he may flee.H6658H430H579H3027H7760H4725H512714If a man acts deliberately against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you are to take him to die even if he's at my altar.H376H2102H7453H2026H6195H3947H4196H419115"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.H5221H1H517H4191H419116"Whoever kidnaps a person, whether he has sold him or whether the victim is still in his possession, shall surely be put to death.H1589H376H4376H4672H3027H4191H419117"Whoever curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.H7043H1H517H4191H419118"If people quarrel and one strikes the other with a rock or his fist, and he does not die but ends up in bed,H582H7378H376H5221H7453H68H176H106H4191H5307H490419and the injured person then gets up and walks around outside with the help of his staff, the one who struck him is not liable, except that he shall compensate him for his loss of time and take care of his complete recovery.H6965H1980H2351H4938H5221H5352H5414H7674H7495H749520"If a man strikes his male or female servant with a stick and he or she dies as a direct result, the master must be punished.H376H5221H5650H519H7626H4191H3027H5358H535821But if the servant survives a day or two, the master is not to be punished because the servant is his property.H389H5975H3117H8147H5358H370122"If two men are fighting and they strike a pregnant woman and her children are born prematurely but there is no harm, he shall surely be fined as the husband of the woman demands of him, and he will pay as the court decides.H582H5327H5062H802H2030H3206H3318H611H6064H6064H802H1167H7896H5414H641423If there is harm, then you are to require life for life,H611H5414H5315H531524eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.22H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H727226"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he shall release him as a free man in exchange for his eye.H376H5221H5869H5650H5869H519H7843H7971H2670H8478H586927If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he shall release him as a free man in exchange for his tooth.26H5307H5650H8127H519H8127H7971H2670H812728"If an ox gores a man or woman so that they die, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh may not be eaten, but the owner of the ox is free from liability.H7794H5055H376H802H4191H7794H5619H5619H1320H398H1167H7794H535529But if the ox has gored previously, and its owner has been warned about it but didn't restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner shall also be put to death.H7794H5056H8543H8032H5749H1167H8104H4191H376H802H7794H5619H1167H419130If a fine is imposed on him, he may pay all that was imposed on him as a ransom for his life.H7896H3724H5414H6306H5315H789631This same ordinance applies if it gores a son or daughter.H5055H1121H176H5055H1323H4941H621332"If the ox gores a male or female servant, the owner shall give 30 shekels of silver to the servant's master, and the ox shall be stoned.H7794H5055H5650H519H5414H113H7970H8255H3701H7794H561933If a man opens a pit or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey falls into it,H376H6605H953H376H3738H953H3680H7794H2543H530734the owner of the pit shall make restitution. He shall pay money to its owner, and the dead animal will become his.2133H1167H953H7999H7725H3701H1167H419135"If a man's ox strikes his neighbor's ox and it dies, they are to sell the live ox and divide the money. They shall also divide the dead animal.H376H7794H5062H7453H4191H4376H2416H7794H2673H3701H4191H267336But if it was known that the ox had gored previously, and its owner didn't restrain it, he shall surely repay ox for ox, and the dead ox will become his.3521H3045H7794H5056H8543H8032H1167H8104H7999H7999H7794H7794H4191