1Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them . 2If thou buy a Hebrew servant , six years he shall serve : and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing . 3If he come in by himself , he shall go out by himself : if he be married , then his wife shall go out with him . 4If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters ; the wife and her children shall be her master ’s, and he shall go out by himself . 5But 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 God, and shall bring him to the door , or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl ; and he shall serve him for ever . 7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do . 8If she please not her master , who hath espoused her to himself , then shall he let her be redeemed : to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power , seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her . 9And if he espouse her unto his son , he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters . 10If he take him another wife ; her food , her raiment , and her duty of marriage , shall he not diminish . 11And if he do not these three things unto her , then shall she go out for nothing , without money .
Laws Concerning Violence and Injury
12He that smiteth a man , so that he dieth , shall surely be put to death . 13And if a man lie not in wait , but God deliver him into his hand ; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee . 14And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor , to slay him with guile ; thou 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 he that stealeth a man , and selleth him , or if he be found in his hand , he shall surely be put to death . 17And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death . 18And if men contend , and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not , but keep his bed ; 19if he rise again , and walk abroad upon 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 surely be punished . 21Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two , he shall not be punished : for he is his money . 22And if men strive together , and hurt a woman with child , so that her fruit depart , and yet no harm follow ; he shall be surely fined , according as the woman ’s husband shall lay upon him ; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23But if any harm follow , then thou shalt give life for life , 24eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot , 25burning for burning , wound for wound , stripe for stripe . 26And if a man smite the eye of his servant , or the eye of his maid, and destroy it ; he shall let him go free for his eye ’s sake. 27And if he smite out his man-servant’s tooth , or his maid-servant’s tooth , he shall let him go free for his tooth ’s sake.
Laws Concerning Property and Theft
28And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death , the ox shall be surely stoned , and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit . 29But if the ox was wont to gore in time past , and it hath been testified to its owner , and he hath not kept it in , but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned , and its owner also shall be put to death . 30If there be laid on him a ransom , then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him . 31Whether it have gored a son , or have gored a daughter , according to this judgment shall it be done unto him . 32If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given unto their master thirty shekels of silver , and the ox 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 ; he shall give money unto the owner thereof , and the dead beast shall be his . 35And if one man ’s ox hurt another ’s, so that it dieth , then they shall sell the live ox , and divide the price of it ; and the dead also they shall divide . 36Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past , and its owner hath not kept it in ; he shall surely pay ox for ox , and the dead beast shall be his own .