Exodus Unit 8 (21:1-22:16)

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21:1 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. 21:2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 21:3 If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. 21:4 If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 21:5 But if the servant shall plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; 21:6 then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. {S}

21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. 21:8 If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 21:9 And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 21:10 If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish. 21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money. {S}

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A 21:12 He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death. 21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he may flee. {S} 21:14 And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from Mine altar, that he may die. {S}

A 21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. {S}

B 21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. {S}

B 21:17 And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. {S}

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A 21:18 And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed; 21:19 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. {S}

A 21:22 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 21:23 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 21:25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. {S}

B 21:20 And if a man smite his bondman, or his bondwoman, with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall surely be punished. 21:21 Notwithstanding if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money. {S}

B  21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his bondman, or the eye of his bondwoman, and destroy it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 21:27 And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. {P}

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A 21:28 And if an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 21:29 But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and warning hath been given to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 21:30 If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. 21:31 Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. 21:32 If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. {S}

A 21:35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide. 21:36 Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own. {S}

B 21:33 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, 21:34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his. {S}

B  21:37 If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 22:1 If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him. 22:2 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him--he shall make restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 22:3 If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double. {S}

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22:4 If a man cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. {S}

22:5 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. {S}

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22:6 If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double. 22:7 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. 22:8 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whereof one saith: 'This is it,' the cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbour. {S}

22:9 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it; 22:10 the oath of the LORD shall be between them both, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. 22:11 But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 22:12 If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness; he shall not make good that which was torn. {P}

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22:13 And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. 22:14 If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hireling, he loseth his hire. {S}

22:15 And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. 22:16 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. {S}