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“These are the laws you are to set before them:
Laws for Servants
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Hebrew Servants
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
“But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.
And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
Personal Injuries
“Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.
“Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.
Personal Injury Laws
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate.
And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
“Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
“Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.
If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
“Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result,
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,
And if any mischief follow, 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.
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
“An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.
And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
“If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death.
But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded.
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter.
Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
“If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Laws about Restitution
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.
The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
“If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally.
And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.
Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.