Exodus Chapter 21

Exodus Chapter 21
1 Now these are the laws, which thou
shalt set before them:
2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, he shall
serve six years, and in the seventh he
shall go out free, for nothing.
3 If he came himself alone, he shall go
out himself alone: if he were married,
then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master hath given him a wife,
and she hath born him sons or daughters,
the wife and her children shall be her
master’s, but he shall go out himself
alone.
5 But if the servant say thus, I love my
master, my wife and my children, I will
not go out free,
6 Then his master shall bring him unto
the judges, and set him to the door, or to
the post, and his master shall bore his
ear through with a awl, and he shall
serve him forever.
7 Likewise if a man sell his daughter to
be a servant, she shall not go out as the
menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath
betrothed her to himself, then shall he
cause to buy her: he shall have no power
to sell her to a strange people, seeing he
despised her.
9 But if he hath betrothed her unto his
son, he shall deal with her according to
the custom of the daughters.
10 If he take him another wife, he shall
not diminish her food, her raiment, and
recompense of her virginity.
11 And if he do not these three unto her,
then shall she go out free, paying no
money.
12 He that smiteth a man, and he die,
shall die the death.
13 And if a man hath not laid wait, but
God hath offered him into his hand, then
I will appoint thee a place whither he
shall flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously
upon his neighbor to slay him with guile,
thou shalt take him from mine altar, that
he may die.
15 Also he that smiteth his father or his
mother, shall die the death. 16 And he
that stealeth a man, and selleth him, if it
be found with him, shall die the death.
17 And he that curseth his father or his
mother, shall die the death. 18 When
men also strive together, and one smite
another with a stone, or with the fist, and
he die not, but lieth in bed,
19 If he rise again and walk without
upon his staff, then shall he that smote
him go quit, save only he shall bear his
charges for his resting, and shall pay for
his healing.
20 And if a man smite his servant, or his
maid with a rod, and he die under his
hand, he shall be surely punished.
21 But if he continue a day, or two days,
he shall not be punished: for he is his
money.
22 Also if men strive and hurt a woman
with child, so that her child depart from
her, and death follow not, he shall be
surely punished according as the
woman’s husband shall appoint him, or
he shall pay as the judges determine. 23
But if death follow, then thou shalt pay
life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for
hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for
wound, stripe for stripe.
26 And if a man smite his servant in the
eye, or his maid in the eye, and hath
perished it, he shall let him go free for
his eye.
27 Also if he smite out his servant’s
tooth, or his maid’s tooth, he shall let
him go out free for his tooth.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that
he die, the ox shall be stoned to death,
and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the
owner of the ox shall go quit. 29 If the
ox were wont to push in times past, and
it hath been told his master, and he hath
not kept him, and after he killeth a man
or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and
his owner shall die also.
30 If there be set to him a sum of money,
then he shall pay the ransom of his life,
whatsoever shall be laid upon him.
31 Whether he hath gored a son or gored
a daughter, he shall be judged after the
same manner.
32 If the ox gore a servant or a maid, he
shall give unto their master thirty shekels
of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 And when a man shall open a well,
or when he shall dig a pit and cover it
not, and an ox or an ass fall therein,
34 The owner of the pit shall make it
good, and give money to the owners
thereof, but the dead beast shall be his.
35 And if a man’s ox hurt his neighbor’s
ox that he die, then they shall sell the
live ox, and divide the money thereof,
and the dead ox also they shall divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used
to push in times past, and his master hath
not kept him, he shall pay ox for ox, but
the dead shall be his own.