¹ `And these [are] the judgments which thou dost set before them:

² `When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

³ if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he [is] owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;

⁴ if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters -- the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself.

⁵ `And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons -- I do not go out free;

⁶ then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him -- to the age.

⁷ `And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

⁸ if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

⁹ `And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

¹⁰ `If another [woman] he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

¹¹ and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.

¹² `He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

¹³ as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.

¹⁴ `And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

¹⁵ `And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

¹⁶ `And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

¹⁷ `And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

¹⁸ `And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed;

¹⁹ if he rise, and hath gone up and down without on his staff, then hath the smiter been acquitted; only his cessation he giveth, and he is thoroughly healed.

²⁰ `And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand -- he is certainly avenged;

²¹ only if he remain a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he [is] his money.

²² `And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges;

²³ and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life,

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

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

²⁶ `And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;

²⁷ and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.

²⁸ `And when an ox doth gore man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox [is] acquitted;

²⁹ and if the ox is [one] accustomed to gore heretofore, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he doth not watch it, and it hath put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner also is put to death.

³⁰ `If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him;

³¹ whether it gore a son or gore a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.

³² `If the ox gore a man-servant or a handmaid, thirty silver shekels he doth give to their lord, and the ox is stoned.

³³ `And when a man doth open a pit, or when a man doth dig a pit, and doth not cover it, and an ox or ass hath fallen thither, --

³⁴ the owner of the pit doth repay, money he doth give back to its owner, and the dead is his.

³⁵ `And when a man's ox doth smite the ox of his neighbour, and it hath died, then they have sold the living ox, and halved its money, and also the dead one they do halve;

³⁶ or, it hath been known that the ox is [one] accustomed to gore heretofore, and its owner doth not watch it, he certainly repayeth ox for ox, and the dead is his.

¹ And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

² and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea -- into your hand they have been given.

³ Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

⁴ only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.

⁵ `And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

⁶ whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

⁷ And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'

⁸ And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying,

⁹ `And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

¹⁰ and with every living creature which [is] with you, among fowl, among cattle, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the ark -- to every beast of the earth.

¹¹ And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and there is not any more a deluge to destroy the earth.'

¹² And God saith, `This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that [is] with you, to generations age-during;

¹³ My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;

¹⁴ and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud,

¹⁵ and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;

¹⁶ and the bow hath been in the cloud, and I have seen it -- to remember the covenant age-during between God and every living creature among all flesh which [is] on the earth.'

¹⁷ And God saith unto Noah, `This [is] a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.'

¹⁸ And the sons of Noah who are going out of the ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.

¹⁹ These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these hath all the earth been overspread.

²⁰ And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,

²¹ and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

²² And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.

²³ And Shem taketh -- Japheth also -- the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces [are] backward, and their father's nakedness they have not seen.

²⁴ And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him,

²⁵ and saith: `Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'

²⁶ And he saith: `Blessed of Jehovah my God [is] Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.

²⁷ God doth give beauty to Japheth, And he dwelleth in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.'

²⁸ And Noah liveth after the deluge three hundred and fifty years;

²⁹ and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.