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Exodus - ch 21 v 1 - 20
- Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.
- If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
- If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.
- If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.
- But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:
- Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.
- And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.
- If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.
- And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.
- And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.
- And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.
- He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.
- But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.
- But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.
- Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.
- Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.
- Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.
- If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;
- If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.
- If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.
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