King James Version

1 And these are the judgments that you shall set before them. 2 When you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he comes in with his own body, he will go out with his own body; if he is the husband of a woman, and his wife will go out with him. 4 If the Lord gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to his master, and he shall go out alone. 5 And if the servant says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free." 6 And his master shall bring him to God and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. 7 And if a man sells his daughter as a maidservant, she shall not go out as the male servants go out. 8 If it is evil in the eyes of my lord that it is not intended for her and she is released to a foreign people, she shall not be sold for a price in her clothing. 9 And if for his daughter, he shall do to her as is the judgment of the daughters. 10 If another takes her, her covering and her food shall not be diminished. 11 And if these three things do not happen to her, she will go out for nothing; there is no money. 12 Whoever strikes a man and he dies shall surely be put to death. 13 And for what did not escape, and God delivered into his hand, and I will put for you a place to which he will flee there. 14 If a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him with cunning, you shall take him from my altar to die. 15 And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 16 If a man steals a person and sells him, and he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 And he who curses his father and his mother shall surely be put to death. 18 And if men struggle and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with a fist and there is no death, but he falls down to a bed. 19 If he rises and walks in the street upon his staff, and the one who strikes him is acquitted, only his sitting will be given, and he shall be healed. 20 If a man strikes his slave or his maidservant with a rod and they die under his hand, he shall surely be avenged. 21 But if a day or two should stand, it will not be established, for it is his money. 22 When men strive together and hurt a pregnant woman, and her children come out, and there is no harm, the one who struck her shall surely be fined as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay according to the judges. 23 And if there is a fatality, you shall give a life for a life. 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. 25 Burning under burning, wound under wound, bruise under bruise. 26 And if a man strikes the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid and destroys it, he shall let him go free in compensation for his eye. 27 And if his servant’s teeth or his maid’s teeth are knocked out, he shall send him free for his tooth. 28 If an ox gores a man or a woman and they die, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, and the owner of the ox shall be innocent. 29 If an ox has gored previously, and it has been indicated to its owner, and he has not kept it, causing the death of a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and also its owner shall be put to death. 30 If a ransom is set upon him and he gives the Redemption of his life according to all that is set upon him. 31 Either a son will be gored or a daughter will be gored; according to this judgment, it will be done to him. 32 If an ox gores a servant or a maid, he shall pay thirty shekels of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls there. 34 In the master of the pit, he will pay money; he will return to his owner, and the dead will be to him. 35 If a man strikes the ox of his neighbor and it dies, they shall sell the live ox and divide its money, and they shall also divide the dead one. 36 Or it is known that the ox has gored from yesterday or the day before, and the owner has not guarded it, he shall repay an ox for an ox, and the dead animal shall be his.