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Exodus 21
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21"These are the ordinances that you must set before them:H4941H7760H6440
2"When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.H7069H5680H5650H8337H8141H5647H7637H3318H2670H2600
3If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with a wife, his wife is to leave with him.H935H1610H3318H1610H1167H802H802H3318
4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.H113H5414H802H3205H1121H1323H802H3206H113H3318H1610
5"But if the slave declares: 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,'H5650H559H559H157H113H802H1121H3318H2670
6his master is to bring him to the judges and then bring him to the door or doorpost. His master must pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve his master for life.H113H5066H430H5066H1817H4201H113H7527H241H4836H5647H5769
7"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to leave as the male slaves do.H376H4376H1323H519H3318H5650H3318
8If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.H7451H5869H113H3259H6299H4376H5237H5971H4910H898
9Or if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her according to the customary treatment of daughters.H3259H1121H6213H4941H1323
10If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.H3947H312H7607H3682H5772H1639
11And if he does not do these three things for her, she may leave free of charge, without any exchange of money.H6213H7969H3318H2600H3701
12"Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.H5221H376H4191H4191H4191
13But if he didn't intend any harm, and yet God caused it to happen by his hand, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.H6658H430H579H3027H7760H4725H5127
14If a person willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him by scheming, you must take him from My altar to be put to death.H376H2102H7453H2026H6195H3947H4196H4191
15"Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.H5221H1H517H4191H4191
16"Whoever kidnaps a person must be put to death, whether he sells him or the person is found in his possession.H1589H376H4376H4672H3027H4191H4191
17"Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.H7043H1H517H4191H4191
18"When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,H582H7378H376H5221H7453H68H176H106H4191H5307H4904
19if he can [later] get up and walk around outside [leaning] on his staff, then the one who struck [him] will be exempt from punishment. Nevertheless, he must pay for his lost work time and provide for [his] complete recovery.H6965H1980H2351H4938H5221H5352H5414H7674H7495H7495
20"When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse, the owner must be punished.H376H5221H5650H519H7626H4191H3027H5358H5358
21However, if the slave can stand up after a day or two, the owner should not be punished because he is his [owner's] property.H389H5975H3117H8147H5358H3701
22"When men get in a fight, and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born [prematurely], but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman's husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.H582H5327H5062H802H2030H3206H3318H611H6064H6064H802H1167H7896H5414H6414
23If there is an injury, then you must give life for life,H611H5414H5315H5315
24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,H5869H5869H8127H8127H3027H3027H7272H7272
25burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.H3555H3555H6482H6482H2250H2250
26"When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.H376H5221H5869H5650H5869H519H7843H7971H2670H8478H5869
27If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his tooth.H5307H5650H8127H519H8127H7971H2670H8127
28"When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox's owner is innocent.H7794H5055H376H802H4191H7794H5619H5619H1320H398H1167H7794H5355
29However, if the ox was in the habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned, and its owner must also be put to death.H7794H5056H8543H8032H5749H1167H8104H4191H376H802H7794H5619H1167H4191
30If instead a ransom is demanded of him, he can pay a redemption price for his life in the full amount demanded from him.H7896H3724H5414H6306H5315H7896
31If it gores a son or a daughter, he is to be dealt with according to this same law.H5055H1121H176H5055H1323H4941H6213
32If the ox gores a male or female slave, he must give 30 shekels of silver to the slave's master, and the ox must be stoned.H7794H5055H5650H519H5414H113H7970H8255H3701H7794H5619
33"When a man uncovers a pit or digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,H376H6605H953H376H3738H953H3680H7794H2543H5307
34the owner of the pit must give compensation; he must pay money to its owner, but the dead animal will become his.H1167H953H7999H7725H3701H1167H4191
35"When a man's ox injures his neighbor's ox and it dies, they must sell the live ox and divide its proceeds; they must also divide the dead animal.H376H7794H5062H7453H4191H4376H2416H7794H2673H3701H4191H2673
36If, however, it is known that the ox was in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not restrained it, he must compensate fully, ox for ox; the dead animal will become his.H3045H7794H5056H8543H8032H1167H8104H7999H7999H7794H7794H4191


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