1 ¶ Now these are the laws that you shall lay before them.

2 If you buy an Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years: and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

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

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

5 But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to go away free:

6 His master shall bring him to the judges; and then bring him to the door, or door post; and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.

7 When a man sells his daughter to be a concubine, she shall not go free as the male slaves do.

8 If her master decides not to make her his wife, after betrothing her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed: he has no right to sell her to outsiders, seeing that he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he makes her his son’s wife, he must treat her like a daughter.

10 If he takes another wife; he must not deprive her of food, clothing, or marital rights.

11 And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free without paying him anything.

12 ¶ He who strikes another, so that he dies, shall be surely put to death.

13 But if he did not plan to kill him, but God allowed an accident to happen; then I will designate a place to which he may flee.

14 But if a man willfully attacks another, planning to slay him; you shall take him from my altar, that he may be put to death.

15 And he who strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

16 And he who steals a man, and sells him, or is caught with him, shall surely be put to death.

17 And he who curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

18 And if men quarrel, and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but is bedridden:

19 If he rises again, and walks about leaning upon his staff, then the one who struck him shall be clear: he shall only pay for the loss of his time, and provide for his complete recovery.

20 And if a man beats his servant, or his maid, with a stick, and he dies then and there; he shall certainly be punished.

21 However, if the slave is up in a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

22 ¶ If men are fighting, and hurt a woman with child, so that she miscarries, and yet no harm follows: the offender shall be fined by the woman’s husband; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,

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

25 Burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26 And if a man strikes the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroys it; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

27 And if he knocks out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

28 When an ox gores a man or a woman, so that they die: then the ox shall certainly be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be clear.

29 But if the ox had tried to gore with its horns in the past, and the owner was told, but did not keep it penned in, and it kills a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

30 If instead a ransom is demanded from him, then he can save his life by paying the price put on him.

31 The same rule applies in dealing with him if the ox gores a boy, or a girl.

32 If the ox gores a male or female slave; the owner shall give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33 And if a man leaves a pit open, or digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it;

34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money to the animal’s owner; and the dead beast shall be his.

35 And if one man’s ox hurts another’s, so that it dies; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and they shall also divide the dead ox.

36 Or if it is known that the ox has gored in the past, and his owner has not kept it in; he should trade ox for ox; and keep the dead one.