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And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
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When◦ thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go··out free for··nothing.
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If with his body◦* he shall come··in, with his body◦ he shall go··out; if he is a husband of a woman, then his woman shall go··out with him.
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If his lord shall give him a woman, and she give··birth to sons or daughters for him, the woman and her children shall be for her lord, and he shall go··out with his body◦.
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And if saying the servant shall say, I love my lord, my woman, and my sons; I will not go··out free;
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then his lord shall present him to▵ God, and shall present him at▵ the door, or at▵ the doorpost; and his lord shall bore▵ through his ear with his awl; and he shall serve him to eternity.
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And when a man◦ shall sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go··out as the going··out of the menservants.
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If she be evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he will not betroth◦ her, then she shall be redeemed◦; to sell her to a foreign people he shall not have the power, by his acting··treacherously with her.
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And if he shall betroth◦ her to his son, he shall do for her according··to the judgment of the daughters.
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If he shall take to him another; her meat◦, her covering, and his abiding* with her, he shall not diminish.
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And if he shall not do these three to her, then she shall go··out for··nothing with no silver.
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He that smites a man◦, and he die, dying he shall··die.
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And if he has not stalked, and God caused the occasion in his hand, then I will set for thee a place whither he shall flee.
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And when◦ a man◦ shall act··from··set··purpose against his companion, to kill him with cunning; thou shalt take him from My altar to die.
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And he that smites his father and his mother, dying he shall··die.
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And he who steals a man◦, and sells him, and if he shall··be··found in his hand, dying he shall··die.
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And he that reviles his father and his mother, dying he shall··die.
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And when men◦ shall strive, and a man◦ shall smite his companion with a stone, or with his fist, and he dies not, but falls to bed;
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if he rise and walk outside on his staff, then the smiter shall be··innocent; only he shall give for his ceasing of work, and healing he shall heal him.
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And when a man◦ shall smite his manservant, or his maidservant, with a rod, and he die under his hand; in being avenged he shall be avenged.
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Only◦ if he shall stand for a day or two, he shall not be avenged, because he is his silver.
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And when men◦ shall quarrel, and shall strike a pregnant woman, and her child go··out, and there is no harm, with fining he shall be fined, as the master of the woman shall put on him; and he shall give according to the judges▵.
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And if harm is done, then thou shalt give soul for soul,
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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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welt* for welt, wound for wound, bruise* for bruise.
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And when a man◦ shall smite the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his maidservant, and shall destroy it; he shall let him go free under his eye.
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And if he shall make the tooth of his servant, or the tooth his maidservant fall out, he shall send him out free for his tooth.
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And when◦ an ox shall gore a man◦ or a woman to death*, with stoning◦ the ox shall be stoned◦, and he shall not eat its flesh; and the master of the ox shall be innocent.
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But if the ox gored someone from yesterday and the day··before*, and it has been testified to its master, and he has not kept it in, and it cause a man◦ or a woman to die; the ox shall be stoned◦, and its master also shall die.
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If atonement be put on him, then he shall give the ransom of his soul according to all that is put on him.
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Whether he have gored a son, or gored a daughter, according··to this judgment shall it be done to him.
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If the ox shall gore a manservant, or a maidservant; he shall give to their lord thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned◦.
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And when a man◦ shall open a pit, or when a man◦ shall dig··out a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey shall fall in there;
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the master of the pit shall repay; he shall return silver to its master, and the dead one shall be his.
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And when the ox of a man◦ shall strike the ox of his companion, and he die; then they shall··sell the living ox, and shall halve the silver of it; and the dead one also they shall halve.
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Or if it be known that the ox had charged··out from yesterday and the day before, and its master has not kept it in; repaying he shall repay an ox instead of the ox, and the dead one shall be for him.
