Exodus 21
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Exo 21:1
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"Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:
Exo 21:2
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"If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
Exo 21:3
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~"If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
Exo 21:4
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~"If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.
Exo 21:5
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~"But if the slave plainly says, `I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'
Exo 21:6
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then his master shall bring him to (Or {the judges who acted in God's name}) God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
Exo 21:7
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"If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.
Exo 21:8
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~"If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her.
Exo 21:9
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~"If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.
Exo 21:10
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~"If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
Exo 21:11
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~"If he will not do these three {things} for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without {payment of} money.
Exo 21:12
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"He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
Exo 21:13
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~"But if he did not lie in wait {for him,} but God let {him} fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.
Exo 21:14
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~"If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him {even} from My altar, that he may die.
Exo 21:15
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"He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Exo 21:16
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"He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.
Exo 21:17
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"He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Exo 21:18
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"If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with {his} fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,
Exo 21:19
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if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.
Exo 21:20
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"If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.
Exo 21:21
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~"If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.
Exo 21:22
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"If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges {decide.}
Exo 21:23
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~"But if there is {any further} injury, then you shall appoint {as a penalty} life for life,
Exo 21:24
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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exo 21:25
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burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Exo 21:26
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"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.
Exo 21:27
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~"And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.
Exo 21:28
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"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 go unpunished.
Exo 21:29
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~"If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.
Exo 21:30
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~"If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.
Exo 21:31
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~"Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
Exo 21:32
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~"If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his {or her} master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
Exo 21:33
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"If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Exo 21:34
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the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead {animal} shall become his.
Exo 21:35
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"If one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also they shall divide the dead {ox.}
Exo 21:36
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~"Or {if} it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead {animal} shall become his.
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