New Living Translation

King James Bible

1“These are the regulations you must present to Israel.

1Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

2“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he may serve for no more than six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom.

2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

3If he was single when he became your slave, he shall leave single. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife must be freed with him.

3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4“If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave and they had sons or daughters, then only the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master.

4If 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.

5But the slave may declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I don’t want to go free.’

5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

6If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the door or doorpost and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will serve his master for life.

6Then 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 aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

7“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.

7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

8If she does not satisfy her owner, he must allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.

8If 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.

9But if the slave’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave but as a daughter.

9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10“If a man who has married a slave wife takes another wife for himself, he must not neglect the rights of the first wife to food, clothing, and sexual intimacy.

10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

11If he fails in any of these three obligations, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. Cases of Personal Injury

11And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

12“Anyone who assaults and kills another person must be put to death.

12He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

13But if it was simply an accident permitted by God, I will appoint a place of refuge where the slayer can run for safety.

13And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

14However, if someone deliberately kills another person, then the slayer must be dragged even from my altar and be put to death.

14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15“Anyone who strikes father or mother must be put to death.

15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

16“Kidnappers must be put to death, whether they are caught in possession of their victims or have already sold them as slaves.

16And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

17“Anyone who dishonors father or mother must be put to death.

17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

18“Now suppose two men quarrel, and one hits the other with a stone or fist, and the injured person does not die but is confined to bed.

18And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

19If he is later able to walk outside again, even with a crutch, the assailant will not be punished but must compensate his victim for lost wages and provide for his full recovery.

19If 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.

20“If a man beats his male or female slave with a club and the slave dies as a result, the owner must be punished.

20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

21But if the slave recovers within a day or two, then the owner shall not be punished, since the slave is his property.

21Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

22“Now suppose two men are fighting, and in the process they accidentally strike a pregnant woman so she gives birth prematurely. If no further injury results, the man who struck the woman must pay the amount of compensation the woman’s husband demands and the judges approve.

22If 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.

23But if there is further injury, the punishment must match the injury: a life for a life,

23And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

24an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,

24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise.

25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26“If a man hits his male or female slave in the eye and the eye is blinded, he must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.

26And 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.

27And if a man knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.

27And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28“If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its flesh may not be eaten. In such a case, however, the owner will not be held liable.

28If 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.

29But suppose the ox had a reputation for goring, and the owner had been informed but failed to keep it under control. If the ox then kills someone, it must be stoned, and the owner must also be put to death.

29But 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.

30However, the dead person’s relatives may accept payment to compensate for the loss of life. The owner of the ox may redeem his life by paying whatever is demanded.

30If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

31“The same regulation applies if the ox gores a boy or a girl.

31Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

32But if the ox gores a slave, either male or female, the animal’s owner must pay the slave’s owner thirty silver coins, and the ox must be stoned.

32If 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.

33“Suppose someone digs or uncovers a pit and fails to cover it, and then an ox or a donkey falls into it.

33And 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;

34The owner of the pit must pay full compensation to the owner of the animal, but then he gets to keep the dead animal.

34The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

35“If someone’s ox injures a neighbor’s ox and the injured ox dies, then the two owners must sell the live ox and divide the price equally between them. They must also divide the dead animal.

35And 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.

36But if the ox had a reputation for goring, yet its owner failed to keep it under control, he must pay full compensation—a live ox for the dead one—but he may keep the dead ox.

36Or 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.

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