New American Standard Bible 1995

King James Bible

1"Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:

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

2"If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.

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

3"If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then 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 shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.

4If 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.

5"But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'

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

6then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

6Then 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 for ever.

7"If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.

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

8"If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her.

8If 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.

9"If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

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

10"If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

11"If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

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

12"He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

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

13"But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.

13And 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.

14"If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him even from My altar, that he may die.

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

15"He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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

16"He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.

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

17"He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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

18"If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,

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

19if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.

19If 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.

20"If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.

20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

21"If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.

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

22"If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

22If 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.

23"But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,

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

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

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

25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

26And 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.

27"And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

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

28"If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.

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

29"If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.

29But if the ox were wont to push with his horn 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 ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

30"If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.

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

31"Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.

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

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

32If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33"If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

33And 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 fall therein;

34the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.

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

35"If one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also they shall divide the dead ox.

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

36"Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.

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

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