SPE - Exodus - 21

21:1  Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

21:2  If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

21:3  If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

21:4  If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

21:5  If the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

21:6  Then 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 awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

21:7  And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

21:8  If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

21:9  And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

21:10  And if he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

21:11  And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

21:12  He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

21:13  And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

21:14  But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

21:15  And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

21:16  And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

21:17  And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

21:18  And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

21:19  If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

21:20  And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely be put to death.

21:21  Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be put to death: for he is his money.

21:22  If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

21:23  And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life

21:24  Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot

21:25  Smiting for smiting, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

21:26  And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

21:27  And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

21:28  If an oxor any animal smiting a man or a woman, that they die: then the animal shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the animal shall be quit.

21:29  But if the animal was smiting in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the animal shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

21:30  If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

21:31  Whether he have smote a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

21:32  If the animal shall smite a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the animal shall be stoned.

21:33  And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass or any animal fall therein;

21:34  The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

21:35  And if one man's ox or any animal hurt another's or any animals of his, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

21:36  Or if it be known that the animal hath used to smite in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay animal for animal; and the dead shall be his own.

21:37  And if a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.