1: Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
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2: If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the
seventh he shall go out free for nothing. |
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3:
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were
married, then his wife shall go out with him. |
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4: If 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. |
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5: And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and
my children; I will not go out free: |
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6: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring
him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear
through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. |
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7: And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go
out as the menservants do. |
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8: If 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. |
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9: And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her
after the manner of daughters. |
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10: If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of
marriage, shall he not diminish. |
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11: And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free
without money. |
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12: He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
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13: And 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. |
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14: But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with
guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. |
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15: And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to
death. |
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16: And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his
hand, he shall surely be put to death. |
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17: And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to
death. |
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18: And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or
with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: |
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19: If 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. |
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20: And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die
under his hand; he shall be surely punished. |
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21: Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be
punished: for he is his money. |
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22: If 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 pay as the judges determine.
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23: And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
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24: Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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25: Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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26: And 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. |
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27: And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's
tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. |
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28: If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be
surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall
be quit. |
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29: But 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. |
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30: If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the
ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. |
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31: Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to
this judgment shall it be done unto him. |
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32: If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give
unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. |
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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 an ass fall therein; |
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34: The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the
owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his. |
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35: And 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.
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36: Or 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. |