1 Now these are the ordinances which thou shall set before them.
2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
5 But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons, I will not go out free,
6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall 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 maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
8 If she does not please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he espouses her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the manner of daughters.
10 If he takes him another [wife], her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.
11 And if he does not do these three things to her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money.
12 He who smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.
13 And if a man does not lay in wait, but God delivers [him] into his hand, then I will appoint for thee a place where he shall flee.
14 And if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with guile, thou shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 And he who smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
16 And he who steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
18 And if men contend, and one smites the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed,
19 if he rises again, and walks abroad upon his staff, then he who smote him shall be acquitted. Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20 And if a man smites his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.
22 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 But if any harm follows, then thou 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, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28 And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.
29 But if the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.
31 Whether it has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
32 If the ox gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given 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; he shall give money to the owner of it, and the dead [beast] shall be his.
35 And if one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it, and the dead they shall also divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] shall be his own.
1 These are the lawes which thou shalt set before the.
2 Yf thou bye a servaunte that is an hebrue, sixte yeres he shall serue, and the seuenth he shall goo out fre paynge nothinge.
3 Yf he came alone, he shall goo out alone: Yf he came maried, his wife shall go out with hi.
4 And yf his master haue geuen him a wife and she haue borne him sonnes or doughters: then the wife and hir childern shalbe hir masters ad he shall goo out alone.
5 But and yf the servaunte saye I loue my master and my wife and my children, I will not goo out fre.
6 Then let his master bringe him vnto the Goddes ad set him to the doore or the dorepost, ad bore his eare thorow with a naule, ad let him be his servaunte for euer.
7 Yf a man sell his doughter to be a servaunte: she shall not goo out as the men servauntes doo.
8 Yf she please not hir master, so that he hath geuen her to no man to wife, then shal he let hir goo fre: to sell her vnto a straunge nacion shal he haue no power, because he despised her.
9 Yf he haue promysed her vnto his sonne to wife, he shal deale with her as men do with their doughters.
10 Yf he take him another wife, yet hir fode, rayment and dutie off mariage shall he not mynisshe.
11 Yf he do not these thre vnto her, then shal she goo out fre and paye no money.
12 He that smyteth a man that he dye, shalbe slayne for it.
13 Yf a ma laye not awayte but God delyuer him in to his hande, then I wyll poynte the a place whether he shall fle.
14 Yf a man come presumptuously vppon his neyghboure ad slee him with gile, thou shalt take him fro myne alter that he dye.
15 And he that smyteth his father or his mother, shall dye for it.
16 He that stealeth a ma ad selleth him (yf it be proued vppon hym) shall be slayne for it.
17 And he that curseth his father or mother, shall be put to deth for it.
18 Yf men stryue together and one smyte another with a stone or with his fyste, so that he dye not, but lyeth in bedd:
19 yf he ryse agayne and walke without vpon his staffe then shall he that smote hi goo quyte: saue only he shal bere his charges while he laye in bed and paye for his healinge.
20 Yf a man smyte his servaunte or his mayde with a staffe that they dye vnder his hande, it shalbe auenged.
21 But ad yf they contynue a daye or two, it shall not be auenged for they are his money.
22 when men stryue and smyte a woman with childe so that hir frute departe from her and yet no mysfortune foloweth: then shall he be mersed, acordynge as the womans husbonde will laye to his charge, and he shall paye as the dayes men appoynte him.
23 But and yf any mysfortune folowe, then shall he paye lyfe for lyfe,
24 eye for eye, toth for toth, hande for hande, fote for fote,
25 burnynge for burnynge, wonde for wonde and strype for strype.
26 Yf a man smyte his servaunte or his mayde in the eye and put it out, he shall let the goo fre for the eyes sake.
27 Also yf he smyte out hys servauntes or his maydes toth, he shall let the go out fre for the tothes sake.
28 Yf an oxe gore a man or a woman that they dye, then the oxe shalbe stoned, and hys flesh shall not be eaten: and his master shall go quyte.
29 Yf the oxe were wont to runne at men in tyme past and it hath bene tolde his master, and he hath not kepte him, but that he hath kylled a man or a woman: then the oxe shalbe stoned and hys master shall dye also.
30 Yf he be sett to a summe off money, then he shall geue for the delyueraunce off his lyfe, acordynge to all that is put vnto him.
31 And whether he hath gored a sonne or a doughter, he shalbe serued after the same maner
32 But yf it be a servaunt or a mayde that the oxe hath gored, then he shall geue vnto their master the summe of .xxx sicles, ad the oxe shall be stoned.
33 Yf a man open a well or dygge a pytt and couer it not, but that an oxe or an asse fall theryn
34 the owner off the pytte shall make it good and geue money vnto their master, and the dead beest shalbe his.
35 Yf one mans oxe hurte anothers that he dye: then they shall sell the lyue oxe and deuyde the money, and the deed oxe also they shall deuyde
36 . But and yf it be knowne that the oxe hath vsed to pusshe in tymes past, then because his master hath not kepte hi, he shall paye oxe for oxe. and the deed shalbe his awne.