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1 Estes são os estatutos que lhes proporás:

2 Se comprares um servo hebreu, seis anos servirá; mas ao sétimo sairá forro, de graça.

3 Se entrar sozinho, sozinho sairá; se tiver mulher, então com ele sairá sua mulher.

4 Se seu senhor lhe houver dado uma mulher e ela lhe houver dado filhos ou filhas, a mulher e os filhos dela serão de seu senhor e ele sairá sozinho.

5 Mas se esse servo expressamente disser: Eu amo a meu senhor, a minha mulher e a meus filhos, não quero sair forro;

6 então seu senhor o levará perante os juízes, e o fará chegar à porta, ou ao umbral da porta, e o seu senhor lhe furará a orelha com uma sovela; e ele o servirá para sempre.

7 Se um homem vender sua filha para ser serva, ela não saira como saem os servos.

8 Se ela não agradar ao seu senhor, de modo que não se despose com ela, então ele permitirá que seja resgatada; vendê-la a um povo estrangeiro, não o poderá fazer, visto ter usado de dolo para com ela.

9 Mas se a desposar com seu filho, fará com ela conforme o direito de filhas.

10 Se lhe tomar outra, não diminuirá e o mantimento daquela, nem o seu vestido, nem o seu direito conjugal.

11 E se não lhe cumprir estas três obrigações, ela sairá de graça, sem dar dinheiro.

12 Quem ferir a um homem, de modo que este morra, certamente será morto.

13 Se, porém, lhe não armar ciladas, mas Deus lho entregar nas mãos, então te designarei um lugar, para onde ele fugirá.

14 No entanto, se alguém se levantar deliberadamente contra seu próximo para o matar à traição, tirá-lo-ás do meu altar, para que morra.

15 Quem ferir a seu pai, ou a sua mãe, certamente será morto.

16 Quem furtar algum homem, e o vender, ou mesmo se este for achado na sua mão, certamente será morto.

17 Quem amaldiçoar a seu pai ou a sua mãe, certamente será morto.

18 Se dois homens brigarem e um ferir ao outro com pedra ou com o punho, e este não morrer, mas cair na cama,

19 se ele tornar a levantar-se e andar fora sobre o seu bordão, então aquele que o feriu será absolvido; somente lhe pagará o tempo perdido e fará que ele seja completamente curado.

20 Se alguém ferir a seu servo ou a sua serva com pau, e este morrer debaixo da sua mão, certamente será castigado;

21 mas se sobreviver um ou dois dias, não será castigado; porque é dinheiro seu.

22 Se alguns homens brigarem, e um ferir uma mulher grávida, e for causa de que aborte, não resultando, porém, outro dano, este certamente será multado, conforme o que lhe impuser o marido da mulher, e pagará segundo o arbítrio dos juízes;

23 mas se resultar dano, então darás vida por vida,

24 olho por olho, dente por dente, mão por mão, por ,

25 queimadura por queimadura, ferida por ferida, golpe por golpe.

26 Se alguém ferir o olho do seu servo ou o olho da sua serva e o cegar, deixá-lo-á ir forro por causa do olho.

27 Da mesma sorte se tirar o dente do seu servo ou o dente da sua serva, deixá-lo-á ir forro por causa do dente.

28 Se um boi escornear um homem ou uma mulher e este morrer, certamente será apedrejado o boi e a sua carne não se comerá; mas o dono do boi será absolvido.

29 Mas se o boi dantes era escorneador, e o seu dono, tendo sido disso advertido, não o guardou, o boi, matando homem ou mulher, será apedrejado, e também o seu dono será morto.

30 Se lhe for imposto resgate, então dará como redenção da sua vida tudo quanto lhe for imposto;

31 quer tenha o boi escorneado a um filho, quer a uma filha, segundo este julgamento lhe será feito.

32 Se o boi escornear um servo, ou uma serva, dar-se-á trinta siclos de prata ao seu senhor, e o boi será apedrejado.

33 Se alguém descobrir uma cova, ou se alguém cavar uma cova e não a cobrir, e nela cair um boi ou um jumento,

34 o dono da cova dará indenização; pagá-la-á em dinheiro ao dono do animal morto, mas este será seu.

35 Se o boi de alguém ferir de morte o boi do seu próximo, então eles venderão o boi vivo e repartirão entre si o dinheiro da venda, e o morto também dividirão entre si.

36 Ou se for notório que aquele boi dantes era escorneador, e seu dono não o guardou, certamente pagará boi por boi, porém o morto será seu.

   

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8995. 'If she is bad in the eyes of her master' means if the affection for truth springing from natural delight is not in agreement with spiritual truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'female slave', to whom the word 'bad' refers, as an affection springing from natural delight, dealt with in 8993, 8994, and from the meaning of 'bad', when it refers to that affection and its relationship with spiritual truth, as being not in agreement with, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'in the eyes of' as in the perception of, dealt with in 2789, 2829, 4083, 4339; and from the meaning of 'master' as spiritual truth, dealt with in 8981.

[2] The implications of all this must be stated. 'A female slave' is an affection for truth springing from the delights that belong to self-love and love of the world, as stated above in 8993, 8994; and this affection is able to be joined to spiritual truth. This may be recognized from the consideration that an affection for spiritual truth is an internal affection or one that resides in the internal man, whereas an affection for truth springing from natural delight resides in the external man. The internal affection that belongs to the spiritual man is joined unceasingly to the external affection that belongs to the natural man, yet in such a way that the internal affection for truth acts as master and the external affection as slave. For it is in keeping with Divine order that the spiritual man should be master over the natural man, 8961, 8967. When the spiritual man is master the person is looking upwards; this is represented by having the head in heaven. But when the natural man is master the person is looking downwards, which is represented by having the head in hell.

[3] To make this transparently clear something more must be stated. By the truths they learn and the good deeds they perform most people hope to acquire some gain from their country, or some important position. If these are regarded as the end in view, the natural man is the master and the spiritual man the slave. But if they are regarded not as the end, only as the means to the end, the spiritual man is the master and the natural man the slave, as accords exactly with the things stated in 7819, 7820. For when people consider gain or position as the means to an end and not the end itself, they are not considering gain or position but the end, which is useful service. A person for example who desires wealth, and acquires it for the sake of useful service which he loves above all things, does not delight in wealth for its own sake; he delights in it for the sake of useful service. The spirit of useful service itself constitutes spiritual life in a person, and the wealth merely serves him as means, see 6933-6938. From this one may also see what the natural man must be like if it is to be joined to the spiritual - it must regard gain and important positions, that is, wealth and eminence, as the means and not the end. What a person regards as the end constitutes the actual life within him, since he loves it more than all things. For what a person loves, that is his end in view.

[4] Anyone who does not know that a person's end in view, or what amounts to the same thing, his love, constitutes the person's spiritual life, consequently that a person is where his love is - in heaven if that love is heavenly, in hell if it is hellish - cannot grasp the situation in these matters. He may suppose that the delight belonging to natural kinds of love - self-love and love of the world - cannot be in agreement with spiritual truth and good. He may suppose this because he does not know that when a person is being regenerated he must be turned upside down, and that when he has been turned upside down he is positioned with his head in heaven, whereas before being turned upside down he was positioned with his head in hell. He was positioned with it in hell when he had the delights of self-love or love of the world as his end in view; but he is positioned with his head in heaven when he has those delights as the means to his end. For the person's end or love, and this alone, has life. The means to the end however have no life of their own but receive life from the end; therefore the means in relation to the final end are called intermediate ends, which have life in the measure that they look to the final end, which is the chief one. So it is that, when a person has been regenerated, consequently when he has loving the neighbour and loving the Lord as his end, he has loving self and the world as the means. When a person is like this, when he looks to the Lord, he rates himself and also the world as nothing. If he does rate himself as something, it is in order that he may be able to serve the Lord. Before this however his attitude had been the opposite. Then he had been full of self-regard and had rated the Lord as nothing; or if had rated Him as something, it had been in order that gain or position might consequently come his way.

[5] All this makes clear the nature of the arcanum concealed in these regulations regarding female slaves from among the daughters of Israel, that is to say, the regulations that although they were slaves they were, if 'good', betrothed to their master who had bought them, or to his son; but if they were 'bad' they were not betrothed but either redeemed or sold, according to the contents of these verses. Betrothing even female slaves, or having them as concubines, was permitted in the representative Church, particularly in the Jewish and Israelite, because a wife represented the affection for spiritual truth, whereas a female slave represented the affection for natural truth, so that a wife represented the internal aspect of the Church with a person, but a female slave the external aspect. The latter was represented by Hagar who was betrothed to Abraham, and also by the two female slaves betrothed to Jacob.

[6] All this now shows what is meant in the internal representative sense by the regulation that 'if she is bad' a female slave cannot be betrothed. That is to say, 'if she is bad' means if the affection springing from natural delight - 'a female slave' - is not in agreement with the spiritual man. This lack of agreement is brought about primarily because that affection wishes to be the master and is of a disposition and mind that cannot be bent towards a love of the Lord. Furthermore the agreement or disagreement of the affection springing from natural delight with the spiritual is determined by the essential nature of them both; but a division of them into their numerous categories would be too long and tedious. A female slave or servant-girl may also mean an affirmative means that serves to join together the external man and the internal man, see 3913, 3917, 3931.

  
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