Exodus 21

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 'These are the laws you must give them:	1 These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 'When you buy a Hebrew slave, his service will last for six years. In the seventh year he wil leave afree man without paying compensation.	2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3 If he came single, he wil depart single; if he came married, his wife wil depart with him.	3 With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children wilbelong to her master, and he wil depart alone.	4 But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters: the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.
5 But if the slave says, "I love my master and my wife and children; I do not wish to be freed,"	5 And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:
6 then his master wil bring him before God and then, leading him to the door or the doorpost, his masterwil pierce his ear with an awl, and the slave wil be permanently his.	6 His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.
7 If a man sel s his daughter as a slave, she wil not leave as male slaves do.	7 If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.
8 If she does not please her master who intended her for himself, he must let her be bought back: hehas not the right to sell her to foreigners, for this would be a breach of faith with her.	8 If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.
9 If he intends her for his son, he must treat her as custom requires daughters to be treated.	9 But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing or conjugal rights of the first one.	10 And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.
11 Should he deprive her of these three things she wil leave a free woman, without payingcompensation.	11 If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.
12 'Anyone who by violence causes a death must be put to death.	12 He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.
13 If, however, he has not planned to do it but it comes from God by his hand, he can take refuge in aplace which I shal appoint for you.	13 But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.
14 But should any person dare to kill another with deliberate planning, you wil take that person evenfrom my altar to be put to death.	14 If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar, that he may die.
15 'Anyone who strikes father or mother wil be put to death.	15 He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.
16 Anyone who abducts a person -- whether that person has since been sold or is stil held -- wil be putto death.	16 He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of guilt, shall be put to death.
17 Anyone who curses father or mother will be put to death.	17 He that curseth his father, or mother, shall die the death.
18 'If people quarrel and one strikes the other a blow with stone or fist so that the injured party, thoughnot dead, is confined to bed,	18 If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 but later recovers and can go about, even with a stick, the one who struck the blow wil have noliability, other than to compensate the injured party for the enforced inactivity and to take care of the injured partyuntil the cure is complete.	19 If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.
20 'If someone beats his slave, male or female, and the slave dies at his hands, he must pay thepenalty.	20 He that striketh his bondman or bondwoman with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.
21 But should the slave survive for one or two days, he will pay no penalty because the slave is his byright of purchase.	21 But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.
22 'If people, when brawling, hurt a pregnant woman and she suffers a miscarriage but no further harmis done, the person responsible wil pay compensation as fixed by the woman's master, paying as much as thejudges decide.	22 If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.
23 If further harm is done, however, you wil award life for life,	23 But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life.
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,	24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stroke for stroke.	25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 'If anyone strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys the use of it, he wil give theslave his freedom to compensate for the eye.	26 If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.
27 If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he wil give the slave his freedom tocompensate for the tooth.	27 Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.
28 'If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox wil be stoned and its meat wil not be eaten, but theowner of the ox wil not be liable.	28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
29 But if the ox has been in the habit of goring before, and if its owner has been warned but has not keptit under control, then should this ox kil a man or woman, it wil be stoned and its owner put to death.	29 But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, an his owner also shall be put to death.
30 If a ransom is imposed on the owner, he wil pay whatever is imposed, to redeem his life.	30 And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 If the ox gores a boy or a girl, it will be treated in accordance with this same rule.	31 If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.
32 If the ox gores a slave, male or female, its owner will pay the price -- thirty shekels -- to their master,and the ox will be stoned.	32 If he assault a bondman or a bond woman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 'If anyone leaves a pit uncovered, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox, or donkey fal s into it,	33 If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,
34 then the owner of the pit will make good the loss by compensating its owner, and the dead animal willbe his.	34 The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.
35 If anyone's ox injures anyone else's ox causing its death, the owners wil sel and share the moneyfor it; they will also share the dead animal.	35 If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:
36 But if it is common knowledge that the ox has been in the habit of goring before, and its owner hasnot kept it under control, the owner wil repay ox for ox, and wil keep the dead animal.	36 But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday and the day before, and his master did not keep him in: he shall pay ox for ox, and shall take the whole carcass.
37 'If anyone steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sel s it, he wil pay back five beasts from theherd for the ox, and four animals from the flock for the sheep.'