Exodus 21–22

21Now these are the judgments which thou shalt ^aset before them. ^2bIf thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³If he came in ^†by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴If 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. ^5cAnd if the servant ^†shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: ⁶Then his master shall bring him unto the ^djudges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall ^ebore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. ⁷And if a man ^fsell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out ^gas the menservants do. ⁸If 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. ⁹And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ¹⁰If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, ^hand her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. ¹¹And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

¹²ⁱHe that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. ¹³And ^kif a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then ^lI will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. ¹⁴But if a man come ^mpresumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; ⁿthou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. ¹⁵And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. ¹⁶And ^ohe that stealeth a man, and ^pselleth him, or if he be ^qfound in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷And ^rhe that ^||curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸And if men strive together, and one smite ^||another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: ¹⁹If he rise again, and walk abroad ^supon 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. ²⁰And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely ^†punished. ²¹Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for ^the is his money. ²²If 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 ^upay as ^xthe judges determine. ²³And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give ^ylife for life, ^24zEye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵Burning for burning, ^awound for wound, stripe for stripe. ²⁶And 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. ²⁷And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

²⁸If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then ^bthe ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. ²⁹But 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. ³⁰If there be laid on him ^ca sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. ³¹Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. ³²If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master ^dthirty shekels of silver, and the ^eox shall be stoned. ³³And 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; ³⁴The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his. ³⁵And 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. ³⁶Or 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.

22If a man shall steal an ox, or a ^||sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and ^afour sheep for a sheep. ²If a thief be found ^bbreaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall ^cno blood be shed for him. ³If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be ^dsold for his theft. ⁴If the theft be certainly ^efound in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall ^frestore double.

⁵If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. ⁶If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. ⁷If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; ^gif the thief be found, let him pay double. ⁸If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the ^hjudges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods. ⁹For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before ⁱthe judges; and whom ⁱthe judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. ¹⁰If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: ¹¹Then shall an ^koath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. ¹²And ^lif it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. ¹³If it be ^ltorn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. ¹⁴And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good. ¹⁵But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

¹⁶And ^mif a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. ¹⁷If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall ^†pay money according to the ⁿdowry of virgins. ^18oThou shalt not suffer a witch to live. ^19pWhosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. ^20qHe that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

^21rThou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. ^22sYe shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ²³If thou afflict them in any wise, and they ^tcry at all unto me, I will surely ^uhear their cry; ²⁴And my ^xwrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and ^yyour wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

^25zIf thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. ^26aIf thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: ²⁷For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he ^bcrieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am ^cgracious.

²⁸Thou shalt not ^drevile the ^||gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. ²⁹Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of ^†thy ripe fruits, and of thy ^†liquors: ^ethe firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. ^30fLikewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: ^gseven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. ³¹And ye shall be ^hholy men unto me: ^kneither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.