Exodus Chapter 21
21:1 | Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them. |
21:2 | If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. |
21:3 | If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. |
21:4 | 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' and he shall go out by himself. |
21:5 | And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: |
21:6 | 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 awl; and he shall serve him for ever. |
21:7 | And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants ![]() |
21:8 | 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 ![]() |
21:9 | And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. |
21:10 | If he take him another [wife]; her ![]() |
21:11 | And if he ![]() ![]() |
21:12 | He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to ![]() |
21:13 | 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. |
21:14 | 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. |
21:15 | And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to ![]() |
21:16 | And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to ![]() |
21:17 | And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to ![]() |
21:18 | And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed: |
21:19 | 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 ![]() |
21:20 | And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. |
21:21 | Notwithstanding, if he continue a ![]() ![]() |
21:22 | 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' husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine]. |
21:23 | And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, |
21:24 | Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, ![]() ![]() |
21:25 | Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. |
21:26 | 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' sake. |
21:27 | And if he smite out his manservant' tooth, or his maidservant' tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth' sake. |
21:28 | 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. |
21:29 | But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in ![]() ![]() |
21:30 | If there be laid on him a sum of ![]() |
21:31 | Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. |
21:32 | 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. |
21:33 | 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; |
21:34 | The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] give ![]() |
21:35 | And if one man' ox hurt another' that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the ![]() |
21:36 | Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in ![]() |