Êxodo 21

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*21:32 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 30 shekels is about 300 grams or about 10.6 ounces. 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.

Te Ture e Pā ana ki ngā Pononga

1 "Ā, ko ngā whakariteritenga ēnei e whakatakotoria e koe ki tō rātou aroaro: 2 Ki te hoko koe i tētahi pononga Hiperu, e ono ngā tau e mahi ai ia; ā, i te whitu ka haere noa atu, kaua he utu. 3 Ki te mea he takakau ia i tōna haerenga mai, me haere atu anō he takakau; ki te mea he wahine tāna, ko rāua ko tāna wahine e haere. 4 Ki te mea nā tōna ariki te wahine i hoatu ki a ia, ā, ka whānau ā rāua tama, tamāhine rānei; mā tōna ariki te wahine rātou ko āna tamariki, ko ia anake e haere.

5 "Ā, ki te mea matanui te pononga, ‘E aroha ana ahau ki tōku ariki, ki tāku wahine, ki āku tamariki; e kore ahau e haere noa atu,’ 6 nā, me kawe ia e tōna ariki ki te Atua. Me kawe hoki ia e ia ki te tatau, ki te pou rānei o te tatau; ā, ka pokaia tōna taringa e tōna ariki ki te oka; ā, ka oti iho ia hei kaimahi māna.

7 "Ki te hokona atu hoki e tētahi tangata tāna tamāhine hei pononga, e kore e rite tōna haerenga ki waho ki te haerenga o ngā pononga tāne. 8 Ki te kino ia ki te titiro a tōna ariki, i taumau nei i a ia māna, nā, me whakahoki ia mō tētahi utu; e kore e āhei te hoko i a ia ki tētahi iwi kē; mōna hoki i tinihanga ki a ia. 9 Ā, ki te taumautia ia e ia mā tāna tama, kia rite ki te tikanga ki ngā tamāhine tupu tāna e mea ai ki a ia. 10 Ki te tango ia i tētahi atu wahine māna kaua e whakaititia e ia te kai mā tērā, te kākahu mōna, me tā rāua moe tahi. 11 Ā, ki te kāhore ēnei mea e toru e meatia e ia ki a ia, nā, me haere noa atu ia, kaua he moni."

Te Ture mō te Patu Tangata

12 "Ki te patu tētahi i te tangata kia mate, me tino whakamate anō ia. 13 Ā, ki te kāhore tētahi e whanga atu, ā, ka mea te Atua kia tūpono ki tōna ringa; nā, māku e whakarite ki a koe te wāhi e rere ai ia. 14 Tēnā ko tēnei, i poka noa te tangata ki tōna hoa, ki te kōhuru tinihanga i a ia; me tango ia e koe i tāku āta, kia mate ai ia.

15 "Me tino whakamate anō hoki te tangata e patu ana i tōna pāpā, i tōna whaea rānei.

16 "Ko te tangata hoki e tāhae ana i tētahi tangata, ā, hokona ana e ia, e kitea ana rānei ki tōna ringa, me tino whakamate anō ia.

17 "Me tino whakamate anō hoki te tangata e kanga ana i tōna pāpā, i tōna whaea rānei.

18 "Ki te whawhai hoki ētahi tāngata ki a rāua, ā, ka ākina tōna hoa e tētahi ki te kōhatu, ka motokia rānei, ā, kāhore ia e mate, engari ka takoto i runga i te moenga; 19 ki te ara ake ia, ā, ka hāereere ki waho me te toko i tāna tokotoko, kātahi ka kore te hara o te tangata i patua ai ia; otiia me utu e ia tōna whakamāngeretanga ki te mahi, me mea hoki kia āta rongoātia kia ora ai.

20 "Ki te patu hoki te tangata i tāna pononga tāne, i tāna pononga wahine rānei, ki te rākau, ā, ka mate i raro iho i tōna ringa; me āta takitaki tōna matenga. 21 Otiia ki te ora ia, kotahi, e rua rānei, ngā rā, e kore e takitakina; nō te mea ko tāna moni ia.

22 "Ki te whawhai ētahi tāngata ki a rātou, ā, ka whara tētahi wahine e hapū ana, ā, ka materoto tāna tamaiti, otiia kāhore atu he hē, me tango he utu i a ia, arā tā te tahu o te wahine e whakarite ai ki a ia; hei tā ngā kaiwhakawā e mea ai tāna e hōmai ai. 23 Engari ki te mate, nā, me hōmai e koe he mate hei utu mō te mate, 24 he kanohi mō te kanohi, he niho mō te niho, he ringa mō te ringa, he waewae mō te waewae, 25 he wera mō te wera, he motu mō te motu, he kārawarawa mō te kārawarawa.

26 "Ki te patua e te tangata te kanohi o tāna pononga tāne, te kanohi rānei o tāna pononga wahine, ā, ka matapōtia; me tuku kia haere noa atu, hei utu mō tōna kanohi. 27 Ā, ki te patua e ia kia marere te niho o tāna pononga tāne, te niho rānei o tāna pononga wahine; me tuku kia haere noa atu, hei utu mō tōna niho."

Ngā Ture e Pā ana ki te Taputapu

28 "Ki te werohia tētahi tangata tētahi wahine rānei, e te kau, ā, ka mate; me tino āki te kau ki te kōhatu, kaua anō hoki ōna kikokiko e kainga; ā, ka tukua noatia atu te rangatira o te kau. 29 Otiia ki te mea he kau wero ia nō mua, ā, kua whakaaturia ki tōna rangatira, ā, kāhore ia e tiaki i a ia, ā, ka mate i a ia tētahi tangata, tētahi wahine rānei; me āki te kau ki te kōhatu, me whakamate anō hoki tōna rangatira. 30 Ki te whakaritea kia hōmai e ia he moni, me hōmai e ia hei utu mō tōna ora te mea i whakaritea ki a ia. 31 Ki te mea he tama, he kōtiro rānei i werohia e ia, kia rite anō ki tēnei tikanga te meatanga ki a ia. 32 Ki te wero te kau i tētahi pononga tāne, i tētahi pononga wahine rānei; kia toru tekau ngā hekere hiriwa e hōmai ki tō rāua ariki, me āki hoki te kau ki te kōhatu.

33 "Ki te whakatuwhera hoki te tangata i tētahi poka, ki te keria rānei e te tangata tētahi poka, ā, e kore e hīpokina e ia, ā, ka taka he kau, he kāihe rānei ki roto; 34 me utu e te tangata nāna te poka, me hōmai he moni e ia ki tō rāua ariki; ā, māna te mea mate.

35 "Ki te tukia te kau a tētahi tangata e te kau e tētahi, ā, ka mate; nā, me hoko e rāua te kau ora, ka wehe ai i ōna utu; me wehe anō hoki e rāua te mea kua mate. 36 Otiia ki te mea i mōhiotia he kau wero ia nō mua, ā, kāhore i tiakina e tōna ariki, me utu e ia te kau ki te kau; ā, māna te mea mate."