²‘When thou buyest a Hebrew servant—six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought; ³if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he is owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him; ⁴if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters—the wife and her children are her lord’s, and he goeth out by himself.

⁵‘And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons—I do not go out free; ⁶then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him—to the age.

⁷‘And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants; ⁸if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

⁹‘And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

¹⁰‘If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw; ¹¹and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.

¹²‘He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death; ¹³as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.

¹⁴‘And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

¹⁵‘And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

¹⁶‘And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

¹⁷‘And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

¹⁸‘And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed; ¹⁹if he rise, and hath gone up and down without on his staff, then hath the smiter been acquitted; only his cessation he giveth, and he is thoroughly healed.

²⁰‘And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand—he is certainly avenged; ²¹only if he remain a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he is his money.

²²‘And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; ²³and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life,

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