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Exodus 21
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21"Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them.H4941H7760H6440 2"If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.H7069H5680H5650H8337H8141H5647H7637H3318H2670H2600 3"If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.H935H1610H3318H1610H1167H802H802H3318 4"If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.H113H5414H802H3205H1121H1323H802H3206H113H3318H1610 5"But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'H5650H559H559H157H113H802H1121H3318H2670 6then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.H113H5066H430H5066H1817H4201H113H7527H241H4836H5647H5769 7"And if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.H376H4376H1323H519H3318H5650H3318 8"If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her.H7451H5869H113H3259H6299H4376H5237H5971H4910H898 9"And if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.H3259H1121H6213H4941H1323 10"If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.H3947H312H7607H3682H5772H1639 11"And if he will not do these three [things] for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without [payment of] money.H6213H7969H3318H2600H3701 12"He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.H5221H376H4191H4191H4191 13"But if he did not lie in wait [for him,] but God let [him] fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.H6658H430H579H3027H7760H4725H5127 14"If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him [even] from My altar, that he may die.H376H2102H7453H2026H6195H3947H4196H4191 15"And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.H5221H1H517H4191H4191 16"And he who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.H1589H376H4376H4672H3027H4191H4191 17"And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.H7043H1H517H4191H4191 18"And if men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with [his] fist, and he does not die but remains in bed;H582H7378H376H5221H7453H68H176H106H4191H5307H4904 19if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.H6965H1980H2351H4938H5221H5352H5414H7674H7495H7495 20"And if a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.H376H5221H5650H519H7626H4191H3027H5358H5358 21"If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.H389H5975H3117H8147H5358H3701 22"And [if] men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is no [further] injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him; and he shall pay as the judges [decide.]H582H5327H5062H802H2030H3206H3318H611H6064H6064H802H1167H7896H5414H6414 23"But if there is [any further] injury, then you shall appoint [as a penalty] 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"And if a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.H376H5221H5869H5650H5869H519H7843H7971H2670H8478H5869 27"And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.H5307H5650H8127H519H8127H7971H2670H8127 28"And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.H7794H5055H376H802H4191H7794H5619H5619H1320H398H1167H7794H5355 29"If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.H7794H5056H8543H8032H5749H1167H8104H4191H376H802H7794H5619H1167H4191 30"If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.H7896H3724H5414H6306H5315H7896 31"Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.H5055H1121H176H5055H1323H4941H6213 32"If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his [ or her] master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.H7794H5055H5650H519H5414H113H7970H8255H3701H7794H5619 33"And if a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,H376H6605H953H376H3738H953H3680H7794H2543H5307 34the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead [animal] shall become his.H1167H953H7999H7725H3701H1167H4191 35"And if one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also they shall divide the dead [ox.]H376H7794H5062H7453H4191H4376H2416H7794H2673H3701H4191H2673 36"Or [if] it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [animal] shall become his.H3045H7794H5056H8543H8032H1167H8104H7999H7999H7794H7794H4191


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