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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4If 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 alone. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31If it gores a man’s son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33“When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34the owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35“When one man’s ox butts another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they shall share. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall repay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his. |
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