Exodus
21
New International Version (NIV)
Exodus
21
1 “These are the laws you are to set before them:
Hebrew
Servants
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six
years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3
If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes,
she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she
bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her
master, and only the man shall go free.
5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife
and children and do not want to go free,’ 6 then his master must
take him before the judges.[a] He shall
take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he
will be his servant for life.
7 “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go
free as male servants do. 8 If she does not please the master who
has selected her for himself,[b] he must
let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has
broken faith with her. 9 If he selects her for his son, he must
grant her the rights of a daughter. 10 If he marries another woman,
he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. 11
If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without
any payment of money.
Personal
Injuries
12 “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put
to death. 13 However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets
it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. 14 But if
anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from
my altar and put to death.
16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether
the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.
17 “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to
death.
18 “If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone
or with their fist[d] and the
victim does not die but is confined to bed, 19 the one who struck
the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around
outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for
any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.
20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod
must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they
are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the
slave is their property.
22 “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she
gives birth prematurely[e] but there
is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband
demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you
are to take 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 “An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and
destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. 27
And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the
slave go free to compensate for the tooth.
28 “If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be
stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will
not be held responsible. 29 If, however, the bull has had the habit
of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it
kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put
to death. 30 However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem
his life by the payment of whatever is demanded. 31 This law also
applies if the bull gores a son or daughter. 32 If the bull gores a
male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels[f] of silver
to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.
33 “If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it
and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34 the one who opened the pit
must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.
35 “If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull and it dies,
the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead
animal equally. 36 However, if it was known that the bull had the
habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay,
animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.
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