Exodus 21 : 1 (HCSB)
"These are the ordinances that you must set before them:
Exodus 21 : 2 (HCSB)
"When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.
Exodus 21 : 3 (HCSB)
If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with a wife, his wife is to leave with him.
Exodus 21 : 4 (HCSB)
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.
Exodus 21 : 5 (HCSB)
"But if the slave declares: 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,'
Exodus 21 : 6 (HCSB)
his master is to bring him to the judges and then bring him to the door or doorpost. His master must pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve his master for life.
Exodus 21 : 7 (HCSB)
"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to leave as the male slaves do.
Exodus 21 : 8 (HCSB)
If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.
Exodus 21 : 9 (HCSB)
Or if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her according to the customary treatment of daughters.
Exodus 21 : 10 (HCSB)
If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
Exodus 21 : 11 (HCSB)
And if he does not do these three things for her, she may leave free of charge, without any exchange of money.
Exodus 21 : 12 (HCSB)
"Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.
Exodus 21 : 13 (HCSB)
But if he didn't intend any harm, and yet God caused it to happen by his hand, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.
Exodus 21 : 14 (HCSB)
If a person willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him by scheming, you must take him from My altar to be put to death.
Exodus 21 : 15 (HCSB)
"Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.
Exodus 21 : 16 (HCSB)
"Whoever kidnaps a person must be put to death, whether he sells him or the person is found in his possession.
Exodus 21 : 17 (HCSB)
"Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.
Exodus 21 : 18 (HCSB)
"When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,
Exodus 21 : 19 (HCSB)
if he can *later get up and walk around outside leaning on his staff, then the one who struck him will be exempt from punishment. Nevertheless, he must pay for his lost work time and provide for his complete recovery.
Exodus 21 : 20 (HCSB)
"When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse, the owner must be punished.
Exodus 21 : 21 (HCSB)
However, if the slave can stand up after a day or two, the owner should not be punished because he is his *owner's property.
Exodus 21 : 22 (HCSB)
"When men get in a fight, and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born *prematurely , but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman's husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.
Exodus 21 : 23 (HCSB)
If there is an injury, then you must give life for life,
Exodus 21 : 24 (HCSB)
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exodus 21 : 25 (HCSB)
burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.
Exodus 21 : 26 (HCSB)
"When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.
Exodus 21 : 27 (HCSB)
If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his tooth.
Exodus 21 : 28 (HCSB)
"When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox's owner is innocent.
Exodus 21 : 29 (HCSB)
However, if the ox was in the habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned, and its owner must also be put to death.
Exodus 21 : 30 (HCSB)
If instead a ransom is demanded of him, he can pay a redemption price for his life in the full amount demanded from him.
Exodus 21 : 31 (HCSB)
If it gores a son or a daughter, he is to be dealt with according to this same law.
Exodus 21 : 32 (HCSB)
If the ox gores a male or female slave, he must give 30 shekels of silver to the slave's master, and the ox must be stoned.
Exodus 21 : 33 (HCSB)
"When a man uncovers a pit or digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Exodus 21 : 34 (HCSB)
the owner of the pit must give compensation; he must pay money to its owner, but the dead animal will become his.
Exodus 21 : 35 (HCSB)
"When a man's ox injures his neighbor's ox and it dies, they must sell the live ox and divide its proceeds; they must also divide the dead animal.
Exodus 21 : 36 (HCSB)
If, however, it is known that the ox was in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not restrained it, he must compensate fully, ox for ox; the dead animal will become his.
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