Exodus 21

1 Now these are the lawes, which thou shalt set before them:

And these [are] the judgments which you will set before them.

2 If thou bye an Ebrewe seruant, he shall serue sixe yeres, and in the seuenth he shall go out free, for nothing.

For you will buy a slave Hebrew six years he will serve and in the seventh [year] he will go out to free [person] without paying.

3 If he came himselfe alone, he shall goe out himselfe alone: if hee were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If with body his he will come with body his he will go out if [is the] husband of a wife he and she will go out wife his with him.

4 If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she hath borne him sonnes or daughters, he wife and her children shalbe her masters, but he shall goe out himselfe alone.

If master his he will give to him a wife and she will bear to him sons or daughters the woman and children her she will belong to master her and he he will go out with body his.

5 But if the seruant saye thus, I loue my master, my wife and my children, I will not goe out free,

And if carefully he will say the slave I love master my wife my and children my not I will go out a free [person].

6 Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, and set him to the dore, or to the poste, and his master shall bore his eare through with a nawle, and he shall serue him for euer.

And he will bring near him master his to God and he will bring near him to the door or to the doorpost and he will pierce master his ear his with the awl and he will serve him for ever.

7 Likewise if a man sell his daughter to be a seruant, she shall not goe out as the men seruantes doe.

And if he will sell a man daughter his to a female slave not she will go out when go out the [male] slaves.

8 If shee please not her master, who hath betrothed her to him selfe, then shall hee cause to buy her: hee shall haue no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he despised her.

If [she is] displeasing in [the] eyes of master her who (for himself *QK) he designated her and he will let be ransomed her to a people foreign not he will have dominion to sell her because has dealt treacherously he with her.

9 But if he hath betrothed her vnto his sonne, he shall deale with her according to the custome of the daughters.

And if for son his he will designate her according to [the] custom of daughters he will do to her.

10 If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.

If another [woman] he will take for himself food her covering her and right to intercourse her not he will reduce.

11 And if he do not these three vnto her, the shall she go out free, paying no money.

And if three [things] these not he will do for her and she will go out without paying not money.

12 He that smiteth a man, and he die, shall dye the death.

[one who] will strike anyone And he will die certainly he will be put to death.

13 And if a man hath not layed wayte, but God hath offered him into his hande, then I wil appoynt thee a place whither he shall flee.

And that not he was lying in wait and God he allowed to happen to hand his and I will designate for you a place where he will flee there.

14 But if a man come presumptuously vpon his neighbour to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

And if he will act presumptuously anyone on neighbor his to kill him with cunning from with altar my you will take him to die.

15 Also hee that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die the death.

And [one who] will strike father his and mother his certainly he will be put to death.

16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, if it be founde with him, shall die the death.

And [one who] will steal anyone and he will sell him and he will be found in hand his certainly he will be put to death.

17 And hee that curseth his father or his mother, shall die the death.

And [one who] will curse father his and mother his certainly he will be put to death.

18 When men also striue together, and one smite another with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but lieth in bed,

And if they will quarrel! men and he will strike anyone neighbor his with a stone or with a fist and not he will die and he will fall to a bed.

19 If hee rise againe and walke without vpon his staffe, then shall he that smote him go quite, saue onely hee shall beare his charges for his resting, and shall pay for his healing.

If he will arise and he will walk about on the outside on staff his and he will be free from guilt the [one who] struck only sitting still his he will pay for and certainly he will have [him] healed.

20 And if a man smite his seruant, or his maide with a rod, and he die vnder his hande, he shalbe surely punished.

And if he will strike anyone [male] slave his or female slave his with the rod and he will die under hand his certainly he will be avenged.

21 But if he continue a day, or two dayes, hee shall not be punished: for he is his money.

Nevertheless if a day or two days he will remain not he will be avenged for [is] money his he.

22 Also if men striue and hurt a woman with childe, so that her childe depart from her, and death follow not, hee shall bee surely punished according as the womans husband shall appoynt him, or he shall pay as the Iudges determine.

And if they will struggle together men and they will strike a woman pregnant and they will come out children her and not it will be harm certainly he will be fined just as he will impose on him [the] husband of the woman and he will give for [the] estimate.

23 But if death follow, then thou shalt paye life for life,

And if harm it will be and you will give a life in place of a life.

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hande for hand, foote for foote,

An eye in place of an eye a tooth in place of a tooth a hand in place of a hand a foot in place of a foot.

25 Burning for burning, wound for wounde, stripe for stripe.

Burning in place of burning bruise in place of bruise wound in place of wound.

26 And if a man smite his seruant in the eie, or his maide in the eye, and hath perished it, hee shall let him goe free for his eye.

And if he will strike anyone [the] eye of [male] slave his or [the] eye of female slave his and he will destroy it to free [person] he will set free him in place of eye his.

27 Also if he smite out his seruants tooth, or his maides tooth, he shall let him goe out free for his tooth.

And if [the] tooth of [male] slave his or [the] tooth of female slave his he will knock out to free [person] he will set free him in place of tooth his.

28 If an oxe gore a man or a woman, that he die, the oxe shalbe stoned to death, and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the oxe shall goe quite.

And if it will gore an ox a man or a woman and he will die certainly it will be stoned to death the ox and not it will be eaten meat its and [the] owner of the ox [will be] free from guilt.

29 If the oxe were wont to push in times past, and it hath bene tolde his master, and hee hath not kept him, and after he killeth a man or a woman, the oxe shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.

And if [will be] an ox prone to gore it from yesterday three days ago and it has been protested on owner its and not he will guard it and it will kill a man or a woman the ox it will be stoned to death and also owner its he will be put to death.

30 If there be set to him a summe of mony, then he shall pay the raunsome of his life, whatsoeuer shalbe laied vpon him.

If a ransom it will be imposed on him and he will give [the] ransom of life his according to all that it will be imposed on him.

31 Whether he hath gored a sonne or gored a daughter, he shalbe iudged after the same maner.

Or a son it will gore or a daughter it will gore according to the judgment this it will be done to him.

32 If the oxe gore a seruant or a mayde, hee shall giue vnto their master thirtie shekels of siluer, and the oxe shalbe stoned.

If a [male] slave it will gore the ox or a female slave silver - thirty shekels he will give to master his and the ox it will be stoned to death.

33 And when a man shall open a well, or when he shall dig a pit and couer it not, and an oxe or an asse fall therein,

And if he will open anyone a pit or for he will dig anyone a pit and not he will cover it and it will fall there an ox or a donkey.

34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and giue money to the owners thereof, but the dead beast shalbe his.

[the] owner of The pit he will make compensation silver he will repay to owner its and the dead [animal] it will be[long] to him.

35 And if a mans oxe hurt his neighbours oxe that he die, then they shall sel the liue oxe, and deuide the money thereof, and the dead oxe also they shall deuide.

And if it will strike [the] ox of anyone [the] ox of neighbor his and it will die and they will sell the ox living and they will divide silver its and also the dead [animal] they will divide!

36 Or if it bee knowen that the oxe hath vsed to push in times past, and his master hath not kept him, he shall pay oxe for oxe, but the dead shall be his owne.

Or it is known that [is] an ox prone to gore it from yesterday three days ago and not he guarded it owner its certainly he will make compensation an ox in place of the ox and the dead [animal] it will be[long] to him.