1 ¶ Now these are the rights which thou shalt set before them.

`And these the judgments which thou dost set before them:

2 I f thou should buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

`When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

3 I f he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him.

if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;

4 I f his master has given him a wife, and she has born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters -- the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself.

5 A nd if the slave shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free.

`And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons -- I do not go out free;

6 T hen his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him forever.

then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him -- to the age.

7 A nd if a man should sell his daughter to be a maidslave, she shall not go out as the menslaves do.

`And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

8 I f she pleases not her master, who therefore took her not unto himself to wife, then it is permitted that she be ransomed; and he may not sell her unto a strange nation when he rejects her.

if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

9 A nd if he has betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

`And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

10 I f he takes another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.

`If another he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

11 A nd if he does not do these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.

12 ¶ He that smites a man so that he dies shall be surely put to death.

`He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

13 A nd if a man did not lie in wait but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint thee a place where he shall flee.

as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.

14 B ut if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with prudence, thou shalt take him from my altar that he may die.

`And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

15 A nd he that smites his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

`And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

16 L ikewise he that steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

`And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

17 I n the same manner he that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

18 A nd if men strive together and one smites another with a stone or with his fist and he dies not, but keeps his bed,

`And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed;

19 i f he rises again and walks abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be absolved, only he shall pay for the loss of his time and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

if he rise, and hath gone up and down without on his staff, then hath the smiter been acquitted; only his cessation he giveth, and he is thoroughly healed.

20 A nd if a man smites his slave or his maid with a rod and he dies under his hand, he shall be surely punished.

`And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand -- he is certainly avenged;

21 N otwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.

only if he remain a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he his money.

22 ¶ If men strive and hurt a woman with child so that she aborts but without death, he shall be surely punished according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him, and he shall pay by the judges.

`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges;

23 A nd if there is death, then thou shalt pay life for life,

and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life,

24 e ye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 b urning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26 A nd if someone smites the eye of their slave or the eye of their maid that it perishes, he shall let them go free for their eye’s sake.

`And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;

27 A nd if he smites out his manslave’s tooth or his maidslave’s tooth, he shall let them go free for their tooth’s sake.

and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.

28 I f an ox gores a man or a woman that they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be absolved.

`And when an ox doth gore man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox acquitted;

29 B ut if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past and it has been testified to his owner, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

and if the ox is accustomed to gore heretofore, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he doth not watch it, and it hath put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner also is put to death.

30 I f there is laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him.

`If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him;

31 W hether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

whether it gore a son or gore a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.

32 I f the ox shall gore a manslave or a maidslave, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

`If the ox gore a man-servant or a handmaid, thirty silver shekels he doth give to their lord, and the ox is stoned.

33 A nd if someone shall open a pit or if someone shall dig a pit and not cover it and an ox or an ass falls in it,

`And when a man doth open a pit, or when a man doth dig a pit, and doth not cover it, and an ox or ass hath fallen thither, --

34 t he owner of the pit shall make it good and give money unto their owner, and the dead beast shall be his.

the owner of the pit doth repay, money he doth give back to its owner, and the dead is his.

35 A nd if one man’s ox hurts another’s that he dies; then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money of it, and the dead ox they shall also divide.

`And when a man's ox doth smite the ox of his neighbour, and it hath died, then they have sold the living ox, and halved its money, and also the dead one they do halve;

36 O r if it is known that the ox used to push in time past and his owner has not kept him in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.

or, it hath been known that the ox is accustomed to gore heretofore, and its owner doth not watch it, he certainly repayeth ox for ox, and the dead is his.