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Exodus - ch 21 v 1 - 20
- Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
- If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
- If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.
- If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
- But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
- then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
- And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
- If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
- And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
- If he take him another `wife'; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
- And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.
- He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.
- And 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.
- And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
- And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
- And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
- And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
- And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;
- if 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.
- And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.
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