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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.
7
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
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.
9
And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10
If he take him another
wife;
her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
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.
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.
15
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
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.
17
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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:
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.
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
Notwithstanding, if he continue 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 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.
23
And if
any
mischief follow, then thou shalt 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
31
Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment
shall it be done unto him.
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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