1 "Tai nuostatai, kuriuos jiems pateiksi.
2 Jei pirksi vergą hebrają, jis tau tarnaus šešerius metus, o septintaisiais paleisi jį be išpirkimo.
3 Jei jis atėjo vienas, vienas teišeina. Jei atėjo vedęs, jo žmona teišeina su juo.
4 Jei jo šeimininkas davė jam žmoną ir ji pagimdė sūnų ir dukterų, žmona ir jos vaikai lieka šeimininkui, o jis vienas teišeina.
5 Bet jei vergas aiškiai pasakys: ‘Aš myliu savo šeimininką, žmoną bei vaikus ir atsisakau laisvės’,
6 tai jo šeimininkas atves jį pas teisėjus, prives jį prie durų arba prie durų staktos ir perdurs yla jo ausį; ir jis liks jam tarnauti visą gyvenimą.
7 Jei kas parduoda savo dukterį vergijon, ji neišeis, kaip išeina vergai.
8 Jei ji nepatinka šeimininkui, kuris su ja susižadėjo, jis turi leisti ją išpirkti. Jis neturi teisės parduoti jos svetimšaliams, nes apgavo ją.
9 O jei jis sužadėjo ją su savo sūnumi, privalo elgtis su ja kaip su dukterimi.
10 Jei jis paims jam kitą, jis neturi teisės sumažinti jai maisto, rūbų ir santuokinių teisių.
11 Jei jis neatlieka jai šitų trijų dalykų, ji išeis be išpirkimo mokesčio.
12 Kas sumuša žmogų taip, kad jis miršta, tas baudžiamas mirtimi.
13 O jei žmogus negalvojo žudyti, bet Dievas atidavė jį į jo rankas, tai Aš paskirsiu vietą, kur jis galėtų pabėgti.
14 Jei kas savo artimą tyčiomis nužudo panaudodamas klastą, tą paimk ir nuo mano aukuro, kad jis mirtų.
15 Kas suduoda savo tėvui arba motinai, tas baudžiamas mirtimi.
16 Kas pavagia žmogų ir parduoda jį, ar jis surandamas pas jį, baudžiamas mirtimi.
17 Kas keikia savo tėvą ar motiną, tas baudžiamas mirtimi.
18 Jei vyrams susivaidijus, vienas taip sumuša kitą akmeniu ar kumščiu, kad tas nemiršta, bet atsigula į lovą,
19 ir jeigu jis atsikelia ir pasiremdamas lazda gali vaikščioti, sumušėjas nebaudžiamas, tik privalo atlyginti už sugaištą laiką ir sumokėti visas gydymo išlaidas.
20 Jei kas taip sumuša vergą ar vergę lazda, kad tas tuojau miršta,bus nubaustas.
21 O jei jis išgyvena vieną ar dvi dienas, jis nebaudžiamas, nes vergas yra jo nuosavybė.
22 Jei vyrai vaidijasi ir užgauna nėščią moterį ir ji persileidžia, bet jos pačios nesužaloja, tada užgavėjas baudžiamas pinigine bauda, kokią jam paskiria tos moters vyras, teisėjams tarpininkaujant.
23 Bet jei sužalojagyvybė už gyvybę,
24 akis už akį, dantis už dantį, ranka už ranką, koja už koją,
25 nudeginimas už nudeginimą, žaizda už žaizdą, randas už randą.
26 Jei kas išmuša savo vergui ar vergei akį, jis privalo už tai paleisti jį laisvėn.
27 Jei jis išmuša savo vergui ar vergei dantį, jis privalo už tai paleisti jį laisvėn.
28 Jei jautis taip subado vyrą ar moterį, kad tas miršta, jautį užmuškite akmenimis ir nevalgykite jo mėsos. Tačiau jaučio savininkas yra nekaltas.
29 Bet jeigu jautis jau anksčiau badydavo ir jo savininkas buvo įspėtas, tačiau jo neuždarė, ir jei jis mirtinai subadė vyrą ar moterį, jautį užmuškite akmenimis, o jo savininką taip pat bauskite mirtimi.
30 O jei jam bus leista išsipirkti, jis mokės išpirką už savo gyvybę tiek, kiek jam bus paskirta.
31 Jei jautis subado sūnų ar dukterį, laikykitės tos pačios taisyklės.
32 Jei jautis subado vergę ar vergą, tai savininkas sumokės vergo šeimininkui trisdešimt šekelių sidabro, o jautį užmuškite akmenimis.
33 Jei kas atidengia duobę arba jei kas iškasa duobę, bet jos neuždengia, ir į ją įkrinta jautis ar asilas,
34 duobės savininkas atlygins nuostolį, sumokėdamas pinigus gyvulio savininkui, o nugaišęs gyvulys liks jam.
35 Jei kieno jautis taip sužaloja kito jautį, kad tas nugaišta, tai jie parduos gyvąjį jautį ir pasidalins už jį gautus pinigus. Taip pat jie pasidalins ir nugaišusį gyvulį.
36 O jei buvo žinoma, kad jautis jau anksčiau badydavo ir savininkas jo neuždarė, tai jis atiduos jautį už jautį, o nugaišęs priklausys jam".
1 Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.
2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
3 If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.
5 But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:
6 Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.
7 And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.
8 If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.
9 And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.
10 And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.
11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.
12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.
13 But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.
14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.
15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.
16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.
17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.
18 If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;
19 If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.
20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.
21 But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.
22 If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.
23 But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.
26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.
27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.
28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.
29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.
30 If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.
31 If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.
32 If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.
33 If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;
34 The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.
35 And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.
36 But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.