Coverdale(i)
1 These are the lawes, that thou shalt laye before them.
2 Yf thou bye a seruaunt that is an Hebrue, he shal serue the sixe yeares, in the seuenth yeare shall he go out fre and lowse.
3 Yf he came alone, then shal he go out alone also: but yf he came maried, then shall his wife go out with him.
4 Yf his master haue geue him a wife, & she haue borne him sonnes or doughters, the shal the wife and ye children be the masters, but he shall go out alone.
5 Neuertheles yf the seruaunt saye: I loue my master, and my wife and children, I wil not go out fre:
6 then let his master brynge him before the Goddes, and holde him to the dore or post, and bore him thorow the eare with a botkin, and let him be his seruaunt for euer.
7 Yf a man sell his doughter to be an handmayde, then shal she not go out as the menseruauntes.
8 But yf she please not hir master, and he haue not maried her, then shal he let her go fre: but to sell her vnto a strauge people he hath no auctorite, for so moch as he hath despysed her.
9 Yf he promyse her vnto his sonne, then shal he do vnto her after the lawe of doughters.
10 But yf he geue him another wife, then shall he mynishe nothinge of hir foode, rayment, and dewtye of mariage.
11 Yf he do not these thre, then shal she go out fre, and paye nothinge.
12 He that smyteth a man that he dye, shall dye the death.
13 Yf he haue not layed wayte for him, but God let him fall in his hande vnawares, then wil I appoynte the a place, where he shal flye vnto.
14 But yf a man presume vpon his neghboure, and slaye him with disceate, then shalt thou take the same fro myne altare, that he maye be slayne.
15 Who so smyteth his father or mother, shall dye the death.
16 He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, so that he be founde by him, the same shall dye the death.
17 Who so curseth father and mother, shal dye the death.
18 Yf men stryue together and one smyte another with a stone, or with his fist, so that he dye not, but lyeth in bedd:
19 Yf he ryse, and go forth vpon his staff, the shall he that smote him, be vngiltie: saue that he shal paye the losse of his tyme, and geue ye money for healynge him.
20 He that smyteth his seruaunt or mayde with a staff, that he dye vnder his handes, the same shall suffre vengeaunce therfore.
21 But yf he endure a daye or two, then shall he suffre no vegeaunce therfore, for it is his money.
22 Yf men stryue, and hytt a woman with childe, so that ye frute departe from her, and no harme happen vnto her, then shall he be punyshed for money, as moch as the womans husbande layeth to his charge, and he shall geue it, acordinge to the appoyntement of the dayes men.
23 But yf there come harme vnto her there thorow, then shal he paye soule for soule,