Exodus 21

21"These are the laws you are to set before them:H4941H7760H6440

Hebrew Servants

2"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.H7069H5680H5650H8337H8141H5647H7637H3318H2670H26003If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.H935H1610H3318H1610H1167H802H802H33184If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.H113H5414H802H3205H1121H1323H802H3206H113H3318H16105"But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'H5650H559H559H157H113H802H1121H3318H26706then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.H113H5066H430H5066H1817H4201H113H7527H241H4836H5647H57697"If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do.H376H4376H1323H519H3318H5650H33188If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.H7451H5869H113H3259H6299H4376H5237H5971H4910H8989If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.H3259H1121H6213H4941H132310If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.H3947H312H7607H3682H5772H163911If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.H6213H7969H3318H2600H3701

Personal Injuries

12"Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death.H5221H376H4191H4191H419113However, if he does not do it intentionally, but God lets it happen, he is to flee to a place I will designate.H6658H430H579H3027H7760H4725H512714But if a man schemes and kills another man deliberately, take him away from my altar and put him to death.H376H2102H7453H2026H6195H3947H4196H419115"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.H5221H1H517H4191H419116"Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he is caught must be put to death.H1589H376H4376H4672H3027H4191H419117"Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.H7043H1H517H4191H419118"If men quarrel and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist and he does not die but is confined to bed,H582H7378H376H5221H7453H68H176H106H4191H5307H490419the one who struck the blow will not be held responsible if the other gets up and walks around outside with his staff; however, he must pay the injured man for the loss of his time and see that he is completely healed.H6965H1980H2351H4938H5221H5352H5414H7674H7495H749520"If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished,H376H5221H5650H519H7626H4191H3027H5358H535821but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.H389H5975H3117H8147H5358H370122"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows.H582H5327H5062H802H2030H3206H3318H611H6064H6064H802H1167H7896H5414H641423But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,H611H5414H5315H531524eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H727225burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.H3555H3555H6482H6482H2250H225026"If a man hits a manservant or maidservant in the eye and destroys it, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the eye.H376H5221H5869H5650H5869H519H7843H7971H2670H8478H586927And if he knocks out the tooth of a manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free to compensate for the tooth.H5307H5650H8127H519H8127H7971H2670H812728"If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull must be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.H7794H5055H376H802H4191H7794H5619H5619H1320H398H1167H7794H535529If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull must be stoned and the owner also must be put to death.H7794H5056H8543H8032H5749H1167H8104H4191H376H802H7794H5619H1167H419130However, if payment is demanded of him, he may redeem his life by paying whatever is demanded.H7896H3724H5414H6306H5315H789631This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter.H5055H1121H176H5055H1323H4941H621332If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull must be stoned.H7794H5055H5650H519H5414H113H7970H8255H3701H7794H561933"If a man uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it,H376H6605H953H376H3738H953H3680H7794H2543H530734the owner of the pit must pay for the loss; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.H1167H953H7999H7725H3701H1167H419135"If a man's bull injures the bull of another and it dies, they are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally.H376H7794H5062H7453H4191H4376H2416H7794H2673H3701H4191H267336However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and the dead animal will be his.H3045H7794H5056H8543H8032H1167H8104H7999H7999H7794H7794H4191