Exodus 21 And these are the rules of rectitude which thou shalt set before them.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And these are the rules of rectitude which thou shalt set before them. ² If thou purchase a Hebrew servant, he shall serve thee six years, but in the seventh year he shall go out free without ransom. ³ If he came in alone, he shall go out alone; but if his wife came with him his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ And if his master hath given him a wife and she hath born him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall belong to his master, and he shall go out alone. ⁵ And if the servant shall answer and say, I love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go away free, ⁶ his master shall bring him to God's court of Justice and there lead him to the door; to the door post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl and he shall serve him for ever. ⁷ When any man selleth his daughter to be a handmaid she shall not go away as those who are in bondage go. ⁸ If she please not her master provided he betrothed her for himself, he shall let her be redeemed; but he is not her master to sell her into another family, because he hath broken covenant with her: ⁹ but if he betroth her for his son, he shall deal by her according to the privilege of daughters. ¹⁰ And if the son take another for himself, he shall not deprive her of food and raiment and her marriage rites. ¹¹ And if he do not these three for her she shall go away ransom free. ¹² If any one smite another and he die, he shall be put to death. ¹³ But if he was not a voluntary agent, but God delivered into his hands, I will appoint for thee a place to which he who hath killed shall flee. ¹⁴ But if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to kill him insidiously, and flee, thou shalt drag him from my altar to put him to death. ¹⁵ He who smiteth his father or his mother shall be put to death. ¹⁶ He who stealeth any of the children of Israel, and having got him in his power selleth him, or if he be found with him, shall be put to death. ¹⁷ He who curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death. ¹⁸ If two men quarrel and one smite the other with a stone or his fist and he dieth not, but is confined to his bed; ¹⁹ if the man rise and walk abroad on his staff, he who smote him shall be acquitted but shall pay for his loss of time and the expence of his cure. ²⁰ If a man smite his man servant or his maid servant with a staff; and the servant die under his hand, vengeance shall be taken by a judicial process; ²¹ but if the servant live a day or two, let no vengeance be taken, for he is his money. ²² If two men fight and strike a woman with child and she miscarry of an embrio, atonement shall be made by a fine. According as the husband of the woman shall with a judicial decision lay upon him, he shall pay: ²³ but if the child be compleatly organised he shall give, life for life; eye for eye; ²⁴ tooth for tooth; hand for hand; foot for foot; ²⁵ burning for burning; wound for wound; stripe for stripe. ²⁶ But if a man smite the eye of a man servant, or the eye of a maid servant; and it become blind, he shall set them free for their eye's sake. ²⁷ And if he beat out the tooth of a man servant, or the tooth of a maid servant, he shall set them free for their tooth's sake. ²⁸ If a bull gore a man or a woman and he or she die, the bull shall be stoned to death and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be held guiltless: ²⁹ but if the bull hath heretofore been accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up; if he kill a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned and his owner also may be put to death. ³⁰ But if a fine shall be laid upon him, he shall pay as a ransom for his life whatever they lay upon him. ³¹ And if the bull shall gore a son or a daughter, they shall deal with him according to this law. ³² But if the bull shall gore a man servant or a maid servant he shall pay their master thirty didrachms of silver and the bull shall be stoned. ³³ If any man open a pit, or dig a pit and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, ³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall pay the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his. ³⁵ If any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbour and he die, they shall sell the live bull and divide the money and they shall divide the dead bull. ³⁶ But if the bull be noted for having been heretofore accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up he shall be fined bull for bull and the dead bull shall be his.