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And. these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. ²If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee, and in the seventh year be shall go forth free for nothing. ³If 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. ⁴Moreover, 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. ⁵And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I ¹ will not go away free; ⁶his 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.

⁷And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart. ⁸If she be not pleasing to her master, ² 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. ⁹And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters, ¹⁰And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship with him. ¹¹And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money. ¹²And if any man smite another and he die, let him be certainly put to death. ¹³But as for him that did it not willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give thee a place whither the slayer may flee. ¹⁴And if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to slay him by craft, and he go for refuge, thou shalt take him from my altar to put him to death. ¹⁵Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death. ¹⁶He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die. ¹⁷Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, ³ let him certainly die. ¹⁸And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed; ¹⁹if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff; he that smote him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing. ²⁰And if a man smite his man-servant or his maid-servant, with a rod and the party die under his hands, he shall be surely punished. ²¹But if the servant continue to live a day or two,

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let not the master be punished; for he is his money. ²²And if two men strive and smite 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. ²³But if it be perfectly formed, he shall give life for life, ²⁴⁴ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. ²⁶And if one smite the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his maid-servant and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake. ²⁷And if he should smite out the tooth of his manservant, or the tooth of his maid-servant he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake. ²⁸And if a bull gore a man or woman and ⁵ 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. ²⁹But 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. ³⁰And 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. ³¹And if the bull gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according to this ordinance. ³²And if the bull gore a man-servant or maid-servant, he shall pay to their master thirty silver didrachms, and the bull shall be stoned. ³³And 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, ³⁴the owner of the pit shall make compensation; he shall give money to their owner, and the dead shall be his own. ³⁵And if any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbour, and it die, they shall sell the living bull and divide the money, and they shall divide the dead bull. ³⁶But 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.