1 Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them. Compare verse
2 If you buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Compare verse1 commentary
6 Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. Compare verse1 commentary
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. Compare verse
8 If she please not her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her to a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her. Compare verse
9 And if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. Compare verse
10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. Compare verse
11 And if he do not these three to her, then shall she go out free without money. Compare verse
12 He that smites a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. Compare verse
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. Compare verse2 commentaries
14 But if a man come presumptuously on his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. Compare verse
15 And he that smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. Compare verse
16 And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. Compare verse
18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keeps his bed: Compare verse
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad on 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. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money. Compare verse
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 on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. Compare verse
23 And if any mischief follow, then you shall give life for life, Compare verse
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it has been testified to his owner, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. Compare verse
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid on him. Compare verse
31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done to him. Compare verse
32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. Compare verse
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; Compare verse
34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money to the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
36 Or if it be known that the ox has used to push in time past, and his owner has not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own. Compare verse