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Exodus 21

¹Now these are the Iudgements which thou shalt set before them.

²If thou buy an Hebrew seruant, sixe yeeres he shall serue, and in the seuenth he shall goe out free for nothing.

³If he came in by himselfe, he shal goe out by himselfe: if he were married, then his wife shall goe out with him.

⁴If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she haue borne him sonnes or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her masters, and he shall go out by himselfe.

⁵And if the seruant shall plainely say, I loue my master, my wife, and my children, I will not goe out free:

⁶Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, hee shall also bring him to the doore, or vnto the doore post, and his master shall boare his eare through with an aule, and he shall serue him for euer.

⁷And if a man sell his daughter to be a mayd seruant, shee shall not goe out as the men seruants doe.

⁸If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himselfe, then shall he let her be redeemed: To sell her vnto a strange nation hee shall haue no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

⁹And if he haue betrothed her vnto his sonne, he shall deale with her after the maner of daughters.

¹⁰If he take him another wife, her food, her rayment, and her duety of mariage shall he not diminish.

¹¹And if he doe not these three vnto her, then shall she goe out free without money.

¹²He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shalbe surely put to death.

¹³And if a man lye not in wait, but God deliuer him into his hand, then I will appoint thee a place whither hee shall flee:

¹⁴But if a man come presumptuously vpon his neighbour 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 bee 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 hee that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely bee put to death.

¹⁸And if men striue together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

¹⁹If hee rise againe, and walke abroad vpon his staffe, then shall hee that smote him, be quit: onely he shall pay for the losse of his time, and shall cause him to be throughly healed.

²⁰And if a man smite his seruant, or his mayd, with a rod, and hee die vnder his hand, hee shall bee surely punished:

²¹Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, hee shall not be punished, for he is his money.

²²If men striue, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischiefe follow, he shalbe surely punished, according as the womans husband will lay vpon him, and hee shall pay as the Iudges determine.

²³And if any mischiefe follow, then thou shalt giue life for life,

²⁴Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote,

²⁵Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

²⁶And if a man smite the eye of his seruant, or the eye of his mayd, that it perish, hee shall let him goe free for his eyes sake.

²⁷And if he smite out his man seruants tooth, or his mayde seruants tooth, hee shal let him goe free for his tooths sake.

²⁸If an oxe gore a man, or a woman, that they die, then the oxe shal be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten: but the owner of the oxe shall be quitte.

²⁹But if the oxe were wont to push with his horne in time past, and it hath bene testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the oxe shall be stoned, and his owner also shall bee put to death.

³⁰If there be layed on him a summe of money, then he shall giue for the ransome of his life, whatsoeuer is layd vpon him.

³¹Whether hee haue gored a sonne, or haue gored a daughter, according to this iudgement shall it bee done vnto him.

³²If the oxe shall push a man seruant, or a mayd seruant, hee shall giue vnto their master thirty shekels, and the oxe shalbe stoned.

³³And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall digge a pit, and not couer it, and an oxe or an asse fall therein:

³⁴The owner of the pit shall make it good, and giue money vnto the owner of them, and the dead beast shalbe his.

³⁵And if one mans oxe hurt anothers, that he die, then they shall sell the liue oxe, and diuide the money of it, and the dead oxe also they shall diuide.

³⁶Or if it bee knowen that the oxe hath vsed to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in, hee shall surely pay oxe for oxe, and the dead shall be his owne.