211 "Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: 2 "If you buy a Hebrew slave , he shall serve for six years ; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment . 3 "If he comes alone , he shall go out alone ; if he is the husband of a wife , then his wife shall go out with him. 4 "If his master gives him a wife , and she bears him sons or daughters , the wife and her children shall belong to her master , and he shall go out alone . 5 "But if the slave plainly says , 'I love my master , my wife and my children ; I will not go out as a free man ,' 6 then his master shall bring him to God , then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost . And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl ; and he shall serve him permanently . 7 " If a man sells his daughter as a female slave , she is not to go free as the male slaves do . 8 "If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed . He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her. 9 "If he designates her for his son , he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters . 10 "If he takes to himself another woman , he may not reduce her food , her clothing , or her conjugal rights . 11 "If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing , without payment of money .
12 " He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death . 13 " But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand , then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee . 14 " If , however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor , so as to kill him craftily , you are to take him even from My altar , that he may die . 15 "He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death . 16 " He who kidnaps a man , whether he sells him or he is found in his possession , shall surely be put to death . 17 " He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death . 18 "If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist , and he does not die but remains in bed , 19 if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff , then he who struck him shall go unpunished ; he shall only pay for his loss of time , and shall take care of him until he is completely healed . 20 "If a man strikes his male or female slave e with a rod and he dies at his hand , he shall be punished . 21 "If , however , he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken ; for he is his property .
22 "If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely , yet there is no injury , he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. 23 "But if there is any further injury , then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life , 24 eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot , 25 burn for burn , wound for wound , bruise for bruise .
26 "If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave e , and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye . 27 "And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave e , he shall let him go free on account of his tooth . 28 "If an ox gores a man or a woman to death , the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten ; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished . 29 "If , however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned , yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman , the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death . 30 "If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever e is demanded of him. 31 "Whether it gores a son or a daughter , it shall be done to him according to the same rule . 32 "If the ox gores a male or female slave e , the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver , and the ox shall be stoned . 33 "If a man opens a pit , or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34 the owner of the pit shall make restitution ; he shall give money to its owner , and the dead animal shall become his. 35 "If one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies , then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also they shall divide the dead ox. 36 "Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring , yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox , and the dead animal shall become his.
