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Exodus - ch 21 v 21 - 36
- Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
- And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
- But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
- eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
- And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
- And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
- And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
- But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
- If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
- Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
- If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
- And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein,
- the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead `beast' shall be his.
- And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it: and the dead also they shall divide.
- Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead `beast' shall be his own.
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