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Exodus - ch 21 v 1 - 20
- And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
- If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
- If he came in alone, he shall go out alone: if he had a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
- If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
- But if the bondman shall say distinctly, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go free;
- then his master shall bring him before the judges, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall be his bondman for ever.
- And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.
- If she is unacceptable in the eyes of her master, who had taken her for himself, then shall he let her be ransomed: to sell her unto a foreign people he hath no power, after having dealt unfaithfully with her.
- And if he have appointed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the law of daughters.
- If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish.
- And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
- He that striketh a man, so that he die, shall certainly be put to death.
- But if he have not lain in wait, and God have delivered him into his hand, I will appoint thee a place to which he shall flee.
- But if a man act wantonly toward his neighbour, and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
- And he that striketh his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.
- And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall certainly be put to death.
- And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.
- And if men dispute, and one strike the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but take to his bed,
- -- if he rise, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that struck him be guiltless; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
- And if a man strike his bondman or his handmaid with a staff, and he die under his hand, he shall certainly be avenged.
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