Exodus 21:1–23

Now 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,