1 "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. 3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is 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 children 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 children. 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 doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. 8 If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. 9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter. 10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. 11 If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18 "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed; 19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
20 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
22 "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. 23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
26 "If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. 27 If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. 29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death. 30 If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed. 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 bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
35 "If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal. 36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
1 En dit is die verordeninge wat jy hulle moet voorhou:
2 As jy 'n Hebreeuse slaaf koop, moet hy ses jaar lank dien, maar in die sewende moet hy as vryman verniet weggaan.
3 As hy alleen kom, moet hy alleen vrygelaat word; as hy getroud is, moet sy vrou saam met hom vrygelaat word.
4 As sy heer aan hom 'n vrou gee en sy vir hom seuns of dogters baar, moet die vrou met haar kinders haar heer se eiendom wees, terwyl hy alleen vrygelaat word.
5 Maar as die slaaf reguit sê: Ek het my heer, my vrou en my kinders lief; ek wil nie as vryman weggaan nie --
6 dan moet sy heer hom na die owerhede bring en hom by die deur of die deurpos bring; en sy heer moet sy oor met 'n els deurboor; daarna moet hy hom vir altyd dien.
7 En as iemand sy dogter as slavin verkoop, mag sy nie soos die slawe weggaan nie.
8 As sy haar heer nie beval nie wat haar vir homself bestem het, moet hy haar laat loskoop. Hy is nie geregtig om haar aan 'n vreemde volk te verkoop nie, omdat hy troueloos met haar gehandel het.
9 Maar as hy haar vir sy seun bestem, moet hy met haar handel volgens die reg van die dogters;
10 as hy vir hom 'n ander een neem, mag hy haar voedsel, haar klere en haar huweliksgemeenskap nie verminder nie.
11 En as hy hierdie drie dinge nie vir haar doen nie, kan sy verniet weggaan, sonder geld.
12 Hy wat 'n mens slaan, dat hy sterwe, moet sekerlik gedood word.
13 Maar as hy dit daar nie op toegelê het nie, maar God dit sy hand laat ontmoet het, dan sal Ek jou 'n plek aanwys waarheen hy kan vlug.
14 Maar as iemand moedswillig teen sy naaste handel, om hom met lis dood te maak, moet jy hom van my altaar af wegneem, om te sterwe.
15 En hy wat sy vader of moeder slaan, moet sekerlik gedood word.
16 En hy wat 'n mens steel en hom verkoop -- of as hy in sy besit gevind word -- die moet sekerlik gedood word.
17 En hy wat sy vader of moeder vloek, moet sekerlik gedood word.
18 En as manne twis en die een die ander slaan met 'n klip of met die vuis, sodat hy nie sterwe nie, maar bedlêend word --
19 as hy weer opstaan en buite met sy stok rondloop, moet hy wat geslaan het, ongestraf bly; net sy tydverlies moet hy vergoed en sorg dat hy heeltemal gesond word.
20 En as iemand sy slaaf of slavin met 'n stok slaan, dat die onder sy hand sterwe, moet dit sekerlik gewreek word.
21 Maar as hy n een of twee dae nog lewe, moet dit nie gewreek word nie, want hy is sy eiendom.
22 En as manne met mekaar veg en 'n swanger vrou so stamp dat haar vrug afgaan, maar daar geen ander letsel is nie, moet hy sekerlik boete betaal soos die man van die vrou hom dit oplê, en hy moet dit deur skeidsregters gee.
23 Maar is daar 'n letsel, dan moet jy gee lewe vir lewe,
24 oog vir oog, tand vir tand, hand vir hand, voet vir voet,
25 brandplek vir brandplek, wond vir wond, kwesplek vir kwesplek.
26 En as iemand sy slaaf of slavin op die oog slaan en hy dit beskadig, moet hy hom vry laat weggaan vir sy oog.
27 En as hy die tand van sy slaaf of die tand van sy slavin uitslaan, moet hy hom vry laat weggaan vir sy tand.
28 En as 'n bees 'n man of 'n vrou stoot, sodat hy sterwe, moet die bees sekerlik gestenig word; en sy vleis mag nie geëet word nie, maar die baas van die bees sal ongestraf bly.
29 Maar as die bees tevore al stoterig gewees het en sy baas gewaarsku was, maar dit nie opgepas het nie, en dit 'n man of 'n vrou doodmaak, moet die bees gestenig word, en sy baas moet ook gedood word.
30 As aan hom losgeld opgelê word, moet hy vir die lossing van sy lewe alles gee wat hom opgelê word.
31 Of dit 'n seun gestoot het of 'n dogter, volgens hierdie reg moet met hom gehandel word.
32 As die bees 'n slaaf of slavin stoot, moet hy aan hulle heer dertig sikkels silwer gee, en die bees moet gestenig word.
33 En as iemand 'n put oopmaak, of as iemand 'n put grawe en dit nie toemaak nie, en 'n bees of esel val daarin,
34 moet die eienaar van die put vergoeding gee: hy moet aan die eienaar van die dier geld gee, maar die dooie dier moet syne wees.
35 En as iemand se bees die bees van 'n ander stoot, sodat dit sterwe, moet hulle die lewendige bees verkoop en die geld daarvan verdeel; en die dooie een moet hulle ook verdeel.
36 Of as dit bekend was dat die bees tevore al stoterig gewees het, en sy baas dit nie opgepas het nie, moet hy ten volle bees vir bees vergoed; maar die dooie een moet syne wees.