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Ordinances for the People
“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:
“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:
Laws for Servants
And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
“If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
If he came in alone, he shall go out alone: if he had a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
“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 alone.
If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
“But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’
But if the bondman shall say distinctly, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go free;
then his master shall bring him to God, 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.
then his master shall bring him before the judges, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall be his bondman for ever.
“If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.
And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.
“If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who 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 unfairness to her.
If she is unacceptable in the eyes of her master, who had taken her for himself, then shall he let her be ransomed: to sell her unto a foreign people he hath no power, after having dealt unfaithfully with her.
“If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.
And if he have appointed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the law of daughters.
“If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish.
“If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
Personal Injuries
“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
Personal Injury Laws
He that striketh a man, so that he die, shall certainly be put to death.
He that striketh a man, so that he die, shall certainly be put to death.
“But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.
But if he have not lain in wait, and God have delivered [him] into his hand, I will appoint thee a place to which he shall flee.
“If, 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.
But if a man act wantonly toward his neighbour, and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
“He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
And he that striketh his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.
“He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall certainly be put to death.
“He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.
“If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,
And if men dispute, and one strike the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but take to [his] bed,
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 loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.
-- if he rise, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that struck [him] be guiltless; only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed.
“If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.
And if a man strike his bondman or his handmaid with a staff, and he die under his hand, he shall certainly be avenged.
“If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.
Only, if he continue [to live] a day or two days, he shall not be avenged; for he is his money.
“If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.
And if men strive together, and strike a woman with child, so that she be delivered, and no mischief happen, he shall in any case be fined, according as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and shall give it as the judges estimate.
“But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,
But if mischief happen, then thou shalt give life for life,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
branding for branding, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
“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.
And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid, and it be marred, he shall let him go for his eye.
“And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.
And if he knock out his bondman's tooth or his handmaid's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth.
“If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.
And if an ox gore a man or a woman, so that they die, then the ox shall certainly be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be guiltless.
“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.
But if the ox have gored heretofore, and it have been testified to its owner, and he have not kept it in, and it kill a man or a woman, -- the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
“If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.
If there be imposed on him a satisfaction, then he shall give the ransom of his life, according to what is imposed on him.
“Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
Whether it gore a son or gore a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done to him.
“If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
If the ox gore a bondman or a handmaid, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
“If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Laws about Restitution
-- And if a man open a pit, or if a man dig a pit, and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall into it,
-- And if a man open a pit, or if a man dig a pit, and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall into it,
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.
the owner of the pit shall make it good, shall give money to the owner of them; and the dead [ox] shall be his.
“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.
-- And if one man's ox gore his neighbour's ox, and it die, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money thereof, and divide the dead also.
“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.
Or if it be known that the ox have gored heretofore, and its owner have not kept him in, he shall in any case restore ox for ox; and the dead shall be his.