Exodus 21

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 'These are the laws you must give them:	1 Now 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 an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and 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 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife 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 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
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 plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my 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 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 If a man sel s his daughter as a slave, she wil not leave as male slaves do.	7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
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 please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 If he intends her for his son, he must treat her as custom requires daughters to be treated.	9 And if he have betrothed her unto 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 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11 Should he deprive her of these three things she wil leave a free woman, without payingcompensation.	11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12 'Anyone who by violence causes a death must be put to death.	12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely 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 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.
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 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
15 'Anyone who strikes father or mother wil be put to death.	15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely 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 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 Anyone who curses father or mother will be put to death.	17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to 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 And if men strive together, and one smite another 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, 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.
20 'If someone beats his slave, male or female, and the slave dies at his hands, he must pay thepenalty.	20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
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 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he 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 strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 If further harm is done, however, you wil award life for life,	23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give 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 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
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 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
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, that they die: then the ox shall be surely 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 were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and 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 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of 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 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
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 the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, 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 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;
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 make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
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 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
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 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
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.'