21:1 And these [are] the ordinances which
thou shalt set before them.
21:2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee, and in the
seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.
21:3 If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if
his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.
21:4 Moreover, if his master give him a wife, ad she have [born] him sons or
daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master's; and he shall go
forth alone.
21:5 And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and
children, I will not go away free;
21:6 his master shall bring him to the judgment-seat of Elohim, and then shall
he bring him to the door,-- to the door-post, and his master shall bore his
ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
21:7 And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as
the maid-servants depart.
21:8 If she be not pleasing to her master, after she has betrothed herself
to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a
foreign nation, because he has trifled with her.
21:9 And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her
according to the right of daughters.
21:10 And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of
necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship [with him].
21:11 And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free
without money.
21:12 And if any man smite another and he die, let him be certainly put to
death.
21:13 But as for him that did it not willingly, but Elohim delivered him into
his hands, I will give thee a place whither the slayer may flee.
21:14 And if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to slay him by craft, and
he go for refuge, thou shalt take him from my altar to put him to death.
21:15 Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to
death.
21:16 Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over
him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.
21:17 He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
21:18 And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a
stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;
21:19 if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that smote him shall
be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.
21:20 And if a man site his man-servant or his maid-servant, with a rod, and
[the party] die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.
21:21 But if [the servant] continue to live a day or two, let not [the
master] be punished; for he is his money.
21:22 And if two men strive and smite a woman with child, and her child be
born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman's
husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation.
21:23 But if it be perfectly formed, he shall give life for life,
21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
21:25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
21:26 And if one smite the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his
maid-servant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye's
sake.
21:27 And if he should smite out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth
of his maid-servant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.
21:28 And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be
stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the
bull shall be clear.
21:29 But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and
men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should
have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die
also.
21:30 And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom
of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.
21:31 And if [the bull] gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according
to this ordinance.
21:32 And if the bull gore a man-servant or maid-servant, he shall pay to
their master thirty silver didrachmas, and the bull shall be stoned.
21:33 And if any one open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not,
and an ox or an ass fall in there,
21:34 the owner of the pit shall make compensation; he shall give money to
their owner, and the dead shall be his own.
21:35 And if any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbour, and it die, they
shall sell the living bull and divide the money, and they shall divide the
dead bull.
21:36 But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past,
and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall
repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own. |
21:1 Now these are the judgments which thou
shalt set before them.
21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the
seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were
married, then his wife shall go out with him.
21:4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or
daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go
out by himself.
21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my
children; I will not go out free:
21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring
him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear
through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go
out as the menservants do.
21:8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then
shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall
have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
21:9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after
the manner of daughters.
21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of
marriage, shall he not diminish.
21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free
without money.
21:12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but Elohim deliver him into his hand; then
I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
21:14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with
guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to
death.
21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his
hand, he shall surely be put to death.
21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to
death.
21:18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or
with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
21:19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that
smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall
cause him to be thoroughly healed.
21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die
under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be
punished: for he is his money.
21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart
from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according
as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges
determine.
21:23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid,
that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
21:27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's
tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
21:28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be
surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox
shall be quit.
21:29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it
hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he
hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also
shall be put to death.
21:30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the
ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
21:31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to
this judgment shall it be done unto him.
21:32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto
their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not
cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
21:34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner
of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
21:35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell
the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall
divide.
21:36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his
owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead
shall be his own. |