Éxodo 21

¹ Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon. ² Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them. ³ If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ⁴ If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁵ 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. ⁶ If the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: ⁷ 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. ⁸ And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. ⁹ 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. ¹⁰ And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ¹¹ And if he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. ¹² And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money. ¹³ He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. ¹⁴ 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. ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. ¹⁷ And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. ¹⁹ And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed: ²⁰ 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 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. ²² Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be put to death: for he [is] his money. ²³ 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]. ²⁴ And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life ²⁵ Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot ²⁶ Smiting for smiting, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. ²⁷ 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. ²⁸ 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. ²⁹ 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. ³⁰ 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. ³¹ 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. ³² Whether he have smote a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. ³³ 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. ³⁴ 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; ³⁵ The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his. ³⁶ 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.