1 "These are the judgments you are to lay before them.
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, but in the seventh year he shall go free without paying anything.
3 If he came in alone, he shall go out alone; if he had a wife, 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 will belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.
5 But if the servant declares, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I do not want to go free,'
6 then his master shall bring him to God. He shall bring him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve him for life.
7 If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she shall not go free the way the male servants do.
8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.
9 If he designates her for his son, he must treat her as a daughter is treated.
10 If he takes another wife for himself, he must not reduce the first one's food, her clothing or her marital rights.
11 If he does not provide her with these three things, she shall go free without any payment of money.
12 Anyone who strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.
13 But if he did not lie in wait for him, and God let it happen by his hand, then I will designate for you a place where he may flee.
14 But if a man schemes against his neighbor and kills him by treachery, you shall take him even from my altar to be put to death.
15 Anyone who strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.
16 Anyone who kidnaps a person must be put to death, whether he has sold him or he is still found in his possession.
17 Anyone who curses his father or his mother must be put to death.
18 If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and the man does not die but is confined to bed,
19 then if he gets up and walks around outside with his staff, the one who struck him shall go unpunished. He must only pay for the time the injured man lost and see that he is fully healed.
20 If a man strikes his male or female servant with a rod and the servant dies under his hand, the death must be avenged.
21 But if the servant survives a day or two, there is to be no vengeance, for the servant is his own money.
22 If men are fighting and they hit a pregnant woman so that her children come out, but there is no further harm, the guilty one must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.
23 But if there is harm, 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, bruise for bruise.
26 If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he must let the servant go free in payment for the eye.
27 If he knocks out a tooth of his male or female servant, he must let the servant go free in payment for the tooth.
28 If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall not be held liable.
29 But if the ox has had the habit of goring before, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up, 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 set for him instead, he shall pay whatever is set for him to redeem his life.
31 If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner shall be dealt with by this same judgment.
32 If the ox gores a male or female servant, the owner shall pay thirty shekels of silver to the servant's master, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 If a man uncovers a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
34 the owner of the pit must make it good. He shall pay money to the animal's owner, and the dead animal will be his.
35 If one man's ox hurts another man's ox so that it dies, they shall sell the live ox and split the money, and they shall also split the dead animal.
36 But if it was known that the ox had the habit of goring before, and its owner did not keep it penned up, he must pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.