Exodus 21 Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.

TKJU⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them. ² If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years: And in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. ³ If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: If he was married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. ⁵ And if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:' ⁶ Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever. ⁷ And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. ⁸ If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed: He shall have no power to sell her to a strange nation, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.does not please: In Hebrew, is evil in the eyes of ⁹ And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ¹⁰ If he takes himself another wife; he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her duty of marriage. ¹¹ And if he does not do these three to her, then she shall go out free, without paying money. ¹² He that smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death. ¹³ And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. ¹⁴ But if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you shall take him from My altar, that he may die. ¹⁵ And he that smites his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. ¹⁶ And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷ And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.curses; or, reviles ¹⁸ And if men strive together, and one smites another with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed:another; or, his neighbor ¹⁹ If he rises again, and walks abroad upon his staff, then he that smote him shall be left unpunished: Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.loss of his time: In Hebrew, his ceasing ²⁰ And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand; he shall surely be punished.punished: In Hebrew, avenged ²¹ Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished: For he is his money. ²² If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit departs from her, and yet no mischief follows: He shall surely be punished, according to as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. ²³ And if any mischief follows, then you shall give life for life, ²⁴ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵ burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. ²⁶ And if a man smites the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perishes; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. ²⁷ And if he smites out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. ²⁸ If an ox gores a man or a woman, that they die: Then the ox shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be left unpunished. ²⁹ But if the ox was known to push with his horn in time past, and it has been testified to his owner, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner shall also be put to death. ³⁰ If there is laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him. ³¹ Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. ³² If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. ³³ And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it; ³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money to the owner of them; and the dead domestic beast shall be his. ³⁵ And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he dies; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money from it; and they shall also divide the dead ox. ³⁶ Or if it is known that the ox had used to push in time past, and his owner has not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.