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1 Now these are the judg­ments which thou shalt set be­fore them. 2 If thou buy an He­brew ser­vant, six years he shall serve: and in the sev­enth he shall go out free for noth­ing. 3 If he came in by him­self, he shall go out by him­self: if he were mar­ried, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his mas­ter have giv­en him a wife, and she have born him sons or daugh­ters; the wife and her chil­dren shall be her master's, and he shall go out by him­self. 5 And if the ser­vant shall plain­ly say, 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; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his mas­ter shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ev­er. 7 And if a man sell his daugh­ter to be a maid­ser­vant, 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 let her be re­deemed: to sell her unto a strange na­tion he shall have no pow­er, see­ing he hath dealt de­ceit­ful­ly with her. 9 And if he have be­trothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her af­ter the man­ner of daugh­ters. 10 If he take him an­oth­er wife; her food, her rai­ment, and her duty of mar­riage, shall he not di­min­ish. 11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free with­out mon­ey. 12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be sure­ly put to death. 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God de­liv­er him into his hand; then I will ap­point thee a place whith­er he shall flee. 14 But if a man come pre­sump­tu­ous­ly upon his neigh­bour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine al­tar, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his fa­ther, or his moth­er, shall be sure­ly put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and sel­l­eth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall sure­ly be put to death. 17 And he that curseth his fa­ther, or his moth­er, shall sure­ly be put to death. 18 And if men strive to­geth­er, and one smite an­oth­er with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep­eth his bed: 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thor­ough­ly healed. 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 Notwith­stand­ing, if he con­tin­ue a day or two, he shall not be pun­ished: for he is his mon­ey. 22 If men strive, and hurt a wom­an with child, so that her fruit de­part from her, and yet no mis­chief fol­low: he shall be sure­ly pun­ished, ac­cord­ing as the woman's hus­band will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 And if any mis­chief fol­low, then thou shalt give 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 the eye of his ser­vant, or the eye of his maid, that it per­ish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. 28 If an ox gore a man or a wom­an, that they die: then the ox shall be sure­ly stoned, and his flesh shall not be eat­en; but the own­er of the ox shall be quit. 29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been tes­ti­fied to his own­er, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a wom­an; the ox shall be stoned, and his own­er also shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of mon­ey, then he shall give for the ran­som of his life what­so­ev­er is laid upon him. 31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daugh­ter, ac­cord­ing to this judg­ment shall it be done unto him. 32 If the ox shall push a manser­vant or a maid­ser­vant; he shall give unto their mas­ter thir­ty shekels of sil­ver, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cov­er it, and an ox or an ass fall there­in; 34 The own­er of the pit shall make it good, and give mon­ey unto the own­er of them; and the dead beast shall be his. 35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and di­vide the mon­ey of it; and the dead ox also they shall di­vide. 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his own­er hath not kept him in; he shall sure­ly pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.