Exodus 21
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CHAPTER 21
1These be the dooms, which thou shalt set forth to them.
2If thou buyest an Hebrew servant, he shall serve thee six years; in the seventh year he shall go out free, without price;
3with what manner clothes he entered, with such clothes go he out; if he entered having a wife, also the wife shall go out together with him.
4But if the lord of a servant gave a wife to him, and she childed sons and daughters, the woman and her children shall be her lord’s; soothly the servant shall go out with his own clothes.
5And if the servant saith, I love my lord, and my wife, and children, I will not go out free;
6his lord shall bring him to [the] gods, that is, judges; and he shall be set to the door, and to the doorposts; and his lord shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall be servant to him till into the world.
7If any man selleth his daughter into a servantess, she shall not go out as handmaids were wont to go out;
8if she displeaseth in the eyes of her lord, to whom she was betaken, he shall deliver her; soothly he shall not have power to sell her to an alien people, if he forsaketh her.
9Forsooth if he weddeth her to his son, he shall do to her by the custom of daughters;
10and if he take with this handmaid another woman, or wife, to his son, he shall purvey to the first damsel, or handmaid, weddings, and clothes, and he shall not deny her the price of her chastity, that is, the hour of yielding debt.
11If he doeth not to her these three, she shall go out freely without money.
12He that smiteth a man, and will slay him, die he by death;
13forsooth if a man setteth not ambush, but God betook him into his hands, I shall ordain a place to thee, whither he oweth to flee.
14If any man slayeth his neighbour by before-casting, and by ambush, draw thou him away from mine altar, that he die.
15He that smiteth his father, or his mother, die he by death.
16He that curseth his father, or mother, die he by death.
17He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, if he is convicted of the guilt, die he by death.
18If men chide, and the tother smite his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he is not dead, but lieth in the bed,
19if he riseth, and goeth forth on his staff, he that smote shall be innocent; so nevertheless that he restore to him for his travails, and his costs in leeches.
20He that smiteth his servant, or handmaid, with a rod, and they be dead in his hands, he shall be guilty of the crime, or hideous trespass.
21Soothly if the servant liveth over this beating one day, or twain [or two], the smiter shall not be subject to the pain of death, for the servant is his master’s chattel.
22If men chide, and a man smiteth a woman with child, and soothly he maketh the child dead-born, but the woman liveth over that smiting, he shall be subject to the harm, as much as the woman’s husband asketh, and as the judges deem.
23Soothly if the death of her pursueth [or follow], he shall yield life for life,
24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25burning for burning, wound for wound, sore for sore.
26If a man smiteth the eye of his servant, either of his handmaid, and maketh them one-eyed, he shall deliver them free for the eye which he put out.
27Also if he smite out a tooth of his servant, or [his] handmaid, in like manner he shall deliver them free.
28If an ox smiteth with his horn either man, or woman, and they be dead, the ox shall be thrown down with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten, and the lord of the ox shall be guiltless.
29That if the ox was an horn-putter from yesterday and the third day ago, and men warned his lord, neither the lord enclosed him, and he slayeth a man, or a woman, both the ox shall be thrown adown with stones, and they shall slay his lord;
30that if the price be put to the lord, he shall give for his life whatever he is asked.
31And if he smiteth with horn a man’s son, and his daughter, his lord shall be subject to the same sentence.
32If the ox assaileth a manservant, and an handmaid, the lord of the ox shall give thirty shekels of silver to the lord of that servant; forsooth the ox shall be oppressed with stones.
33If any man openeth a cistern, or a pit, and diggeth it, and covereth it not, and an ox either an ass falleth into it,
34the lord of the cistern shall yield the price of the beasts; forsooth that that is dead shall be his.
35If one man’s ox woundeth the ox of another man, and he is dead, they shall sell the quick ox, and they shall part [or divide] the price; soothly they shall part betwixt them the carcass of the dead ox.
36Forsooth if the lord knew, that his ox was a horn-putter from yesterday and the third day ago, and kept not him in, he shall yield ox for ox, and he shall take the whole dead carcass.
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Exodus 21
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1“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. 2#Lev 25.39-46; Deut 15.12-18. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's and he shall go out alone. 5But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.
7“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. 8If she does not please her master, who has designated her#21.8 Another reading is so that he has not designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her. 9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
12 #
Ex 20.13; Lev 24.17; Deut 5.17; Mt 5.21. “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 13#Num 35.10-34; Deut 19.1-13; Josh 20.1-9. But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him treacherously, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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Deut 24.7. “Whoever steals a man, whether he sells him or is found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
17 #
Lev 20.9; Mt 15.4; Mk 7.10. “Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
18“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but keeps his bed, 19then if the man rises again and walks abroad with his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.
20“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. 21But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money.
22“When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall#21.22 Heb he shall be fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23#Lev 24.19-20; Deut 19.21; Mt 5.38. If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, 24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the eye's sake. 27If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free for the tooth's sake.
28“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be clear. 29But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him. 31If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule. 32If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33“When a man leaves a pit open, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it, 34the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.
35“When one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the price of it; and the dead beast also they shall divide. 36Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.
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