Exodus 21
1 And these [are] the ordinances which you shall set before them.
Hæc sunt judicia quæ propones eis.
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.
Si emeris servum hebræum, sex annis serviet tibi: in septimo egredietur liber gratis.
3 If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.
Cum quali veste intraverit, cum tali exeat: si habens uxorem, et uxor egredietur simul.
4 Moreover, if his master give him a wife, and she have [born] him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master's; and he shall go forth alone.
Sin autem dominus dederit illi uxorem, et pepererit filios et filias: mulier et liberi ejus erunt domini sui, ipse vero exibit cum vestitu suo.
5 And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away free;
Quod si dixerit servus: Diligo dominum meum et uxorem ac liberos; non egrediar liber:
6 his master shall bring him to the judgment-seat of God, and then shall he bring 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.
offeret eum dominus diis, et applicabitur ad ostium et postes, perforabitque aurem ejus subula: et erit ei servus in sæculum.
7 And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart.
Si quis vendiderit filiam suam in famulam, non egredietur sicut ancillæ exire consueverunt.
8 If she be not pleasing to her master, after she has betrothed herself to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has trifled with her.
Si displicuerit oculis domini sui cui tradita fuerat, dimittet eam: populo autem alieno vendendi non habebit potestatem, si spreverit eam.
9 And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters.
Sin autem filio suo desponderit eam, juxta morem filiarum faciet illi.
10 And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship [with him].
Quod si alteram ei acceperit, providebit puellæ nuptias, et vestimenta, et pretium pudicitiæ non negabit.
11 And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money.
Si tria ista non fecerit, egredietur gratis absque pecunia.
12 And if any man strike another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.
Qui percusserit hominem volens occidere, morte moriatur.
13 But as for him that did it not willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give you a place whither the slayer may flee.
Qui autem non est insidiatus, sed Deus illum tradidit in manus ejus, constituam tibi locum in quem fugere debeat.
14 And if any one lie in wait for his neighbor to kill him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from my altar to put him to death.
Si quis per industriam occiderit proximum suum, et per insidias: ab altari meo evelles eum, ut moriatur.
15 Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.
Qui percusserit patrem suum aut matrem, morte moriatur.
16 He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
Qui furatus fuerit hominem, et vendiderit eum, convictus noxæ, morte moriatur.
17 Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.
Qui maledixerit patri suo, vel matri, morte moriatur.
18 And if two men revile each other and strike the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;
Si rixati fuerint viri, et percusserit alter proximum suum lapide vel pugno, et ille mortuus non fuerit, sed jacuerit in lectulo:
19 if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.
si surrexerit, et ambulaverit foris super baculum suum, innocens erit qui percusserit, ita tamen ut operas ejus et impensas in medicos restituat.
20 And if a man strike his man-servant or his maidservant, with a rod, and [the party] die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.
Qui percusserit servum suum, vel ancillam virga, et mortui fuerint in manibus ejus, criminis reus erit.
21 But if [the servant] continue to live a day or two, let not [the master] be punished; for he is his money.
Sin autem uno die vel duobus supervixerit, non subjacebit pœnæ, quia pecunia illius est.
22 And if two men strive and strike a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman's husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation.
Si rixati fuerint viri, et percusserit quis mulierem prægnantem, et abortivum quidem fecerit, sed ipsa vixerit: subjacebit damno quantum maritus mulieris expetierit, et arbitri judicaverint.
23 But if it be perfectly formed, he shall give life for life,
Sin autem mors ejus fuerit subsecuta, reddet animam pro anima,
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente, manum pro manu, pedem pro pede,
25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
adustionem pro adustione, vulnus pro vulnere, livorem pro livore.
26 And if one strike the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake.
Si percusserit quispiam oculum servi sui aut ancillæ, et luscos eos fecerit, dimittet eos liberos pro oculo quem eruit.
27 And if he should strike out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.
Dentem quoque si excusserit servo vel ancillæ suæ, similiter dimittet eos liberos.
28 And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.
Si bos cornu percusserit virum aut mulierem, et mortui fuerint, lapidibus obruetur: et non comedentur carnes ejus, dominus quoque bovis innocens erit.
29 But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.
Quod si bos cornupeta fuerit ab heri et nudiustertius, et contestati sunt dominum ejus, nec recluserit eum, occideritque virum aut mulierem: et bos lapidibus obruetur, et dominum ejus occident.
30 And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.
Quod si pretium fuerit ei impositum, dabit pro anima sua quidquid fuerit postulatus.
31 And if [the bull] gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according to this ordinance.
Filium quoque et filiam si cornu percusserit, simili sententiæ subjacebit.
32 And if the bull gore a man-servant or maidservant, he shall pay to their master thirty silver didrachmas, and the bull shall be stoned.
Si servum ancillamque invaserit, triginta siclos argenti domino dabit, bos vero lapidibus opprimetur.
33 And if any one open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall in there,
Si quis aperuerit cisternam, et foderit, et non operuerit eam, cecideritque bos aut asinus in eam,
34 the owner of the pit shall make compensation; he shall give money to their owner, and the dead shall be his own.
reddet dominus cisternæ pretium jumentorum: quod autem mortuum est, ipsius erit.
35 And if any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbor, and it die, they shall sell the living bull and divide the money, and they shall divide the dead bull.
Si bos alienus bovem alterius vulneraverit, et ille mortuus fuerit: vendent bovem vivum, et divident pretium, cadaver autem mortui inter se dispertient.
36 But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past, and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own.
Sin autem sciebat quod bos cornupeta esset ab heri et nudiustertius, et non custodivit eum dominus suus: reddet bovem pro bove, et cadaver integrum accipiet.
