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

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.H7069H5680H5650H8337H8141H5647H7637H3318H2670H2600

3If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.H935H1610H3318H1610H1167H802H802H3318

4If 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.H113H5414H802H3205H1121H1323H802H3206H113H3318H1610

5"But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'H5650H559H559H157H113H802H1121H3318H2670

6then 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.H113H5066H430H5066H1817H4201H113H7527H241H4836H5647H5769

7"If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.H376H4376H1323H519H3318H5650H3318

8If 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.H7451H5869H113H3259H6299H4376H5237H5971H4910H898

9If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.H3259H1121H6213H4941H1323

10If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.H3947H312H7607H3682H5772H1639

11If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.H6213H7969H3318H2600H3701

12"Anyone who strikes someone a fatal blow is to be put to death.H5221H376H4191H4191H4191

13However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate.H6658H430H579H3027H7760H4725H5127

14But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.H376H2102H7453H2026H6195H3947H4196H4191

15"Anyone who attacks their father or mother is to be put to death.H5221H1H517H4191H4191

16"Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper's possession.H1589H376H4376H4672H3027H4191H4191

17"Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.H7043H1H517H4191H4191

18"If two people quarrel and one hits the other with a stone or with a fist and the victim does not die but is confined to bed,H582H7378H376H5221H7453H68H176H106H4191H5307H4904

19the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.H6965H1980H2351H4938H5221H5352H5414H7674H7495H7495

20"Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result,H376H5221H5650H519H7626H4191H3027H5358H5358

21but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.H389H5975H3117H8147H5358H3701

22"If people are fighting and a pregnant woman is hit and gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows.H582H5327H5062H802H2030H3206H3318H611H6064H6064H802H1167H7896H5414H6414

23But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,H611H5414H5315H5315

24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H7272

25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.H3555H3555H6482H6482H2250H2250

26"An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.H376H5221H5869H5650H5869H519H7843H7971H2670H8478H5869

27And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.H5307H5650H8127H519H8127H7971H2670H8127

28"If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.H7794H5055H376H802H4191H7794H5619H5619H1320H398H1167H7794H5355

29If, 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 is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death.H7794H5056H8543H8032H5749H1167H8104H4191H376H802H7794H5619H1167H4191

30However, if payment is demanded, the owner's life may be redeemed by the payment of whatever is demanded.H7896H3724H5414H6306H5315H7896

31This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter.H5055H1121H176H5055H1323H4941H6213

32If 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 is to be stoned to death.H7794H5055H5650H519H5414H113H7970H8255H3701H7794H5619

33"If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it,H376H6605H953H376H3738H953H3680H7794H2543H5307

34the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.H1167H953H7999H7725H3701H1167H4191

35"If anyone's bull injures the bull of another and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally.H376H7794H5062H7453H4191H4376H2416H7794H2673H3701H4191H2673

36However, 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 take the dead animal in exchange.H3045H7794H5056H8543H8032H1167H8104H7999H7999H7794H7794H4191