Exodus 21:1–16

These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

²If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

³With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.

⁴But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master’s: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.

⁵And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

⁶His master shall bring him to the God, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

⁷If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

⁸If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

⁹But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

¹⁰And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

¹¹If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

¹²He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

¹³But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.

¹⁴If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.

¹⁵He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

¹⁶He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.