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Exodus 21

Ordinances for the People

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"Now these are the  aordinances which you are to set before them:

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"If you buy  aa Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.

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"If he comes  1alone, he shall go out  1alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

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"If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out  1alone.

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"But  aif the slave plainly says, `I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'

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then his master shall bring him to  1God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

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aIf a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to  1go free  bas the male slaves  1do.

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"If she is  1displeasing in the eyes of her master  2who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his  3unfairness to her.

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"If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

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"If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her  1food, her clothing, or  aher conjugal rights.

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"If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

Personal Injuries

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aHe who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

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aBut  1if he did not lie in wait for him, but  bGod let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.

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aIf, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him even from My altar, that he may die.

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"He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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aHe who  1kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his  2possession, shall surely be put to death.

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aHe who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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"If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but  1remains in bed,

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if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his  1loss of time, and  2shall take care of him until he is completely healed.

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"If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies  1at his hand, he shall  2be punished.

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"If, however, he  1survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken;  afor he is his  2property.

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"If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that  1she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband  2may demand of him, and he shall  apay  3as the judges decide.

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"But if there is any further injury,  athen you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,

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 aeye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

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burn for burn, wound for wound,  1bruise for bruise.

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"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

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"And if he  1knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

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"If an ox gores a man or a woman  1to death,  athe ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.

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"If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.

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"If a ransom is  1demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is  1demanded of him.

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"Whether it gores a son or  1a daughter, it shall be done to him according to  2the same rule.

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"If the ox gores a male or female slave,  1the owner shall give his or her master  athirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

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"If a man opens a pit, or  1digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

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the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall  1give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.

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"If one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also they shall divide the dead ox.

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"Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.



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