Exodus 21

1 Now these are the judgments which you will set before them.

2 If you buy an One From Beyond (Hebrew) servant, he will serve six years: and in the seventh he will go out free for nothing.

3 If he came in by himself, he will go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife will go out with him.

4 If his master has given him a wife, and she has born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children will be her master's, and he will go out by himself.

5 If the servant will plainly say, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free.”

6 Then his master will bring him to the judges. He will bring him to the door, or to the door post and his master will bore his ear through with an aul. Then he will serve him for ever.

7 If a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she will not go out as the menservants do.

8 If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then will he let her be redeemed. He will have no power to sell her to a strange nation, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9 If he has betrothed her to his son, he will deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10 If he takes to him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he will not diminish.

11 And if he does not do these three for her, then will she go out free without money.

12 He that strikes a man, so that he die, he will be surely put to death.

13 But if a man did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he can flee.

14 But if a man comes presumptuously on his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you will take him from My altar, that he may die.

15 He that strikes his father, or his mother, will be surely put to death.

16 He that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he will surely be put to death.

17 He that curses his father, or his mother, will surely be put to death.

18 If men strive together, and one hits another with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but keeps his bed:

19 If he rises again, and walk abroad on his staff, then he that hit him will be acquitted. He will only pay for the loss of his time, and will cause him to be thoroughly healed.

20 If a man hits his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he will be surely punished.

21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he will not be punished: for he is his money.

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit departs from her, and yet no mischief follow: he will be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he will pay as the judges determine.

23 And if anything else happens, then you will 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 If a man hits the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he will let him go free for his eye's sake.

27 And if he knocks out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he will 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 will be surely stoned, and his flesh will not be eaten; but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

29 But if the ox were known to push with his horn in time past, and it has been testified to his owner, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox will be stoned, and his owner also will be put to death.

30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he will give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

31 Whether he has gored a son, or gored a daughter, according to this judgment will it be done to him.

32 If the ox will push a manservant or a maidservant; he will give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox will be stoned.

33 If a man will open a pit, or if a man will dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;

34 The owner of the pit will make it good, and give money to the owner of them; and the dead beast will be his.

35 If one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they will sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they will divide.

36 It was known that the ox has pushed in time past, and his owner has not kept him in; he will surely pay ox for ox; and the dead will be his own.