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¹ Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.² If you buy a Hebrew slave, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.³ If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he is 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 shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.⁵ But if the slave shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons; I will not go out free:⁶ then his master shall bring him to the gods, 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 serve him forever.⁷ And if a man sells his daughter to be a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.⁸ If she doesn't please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed: to sell her to a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.⁹ And if he espouse her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.¹⁰ If he takes him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.¹¹ And if he does not do these three things to her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money.

¹² He that smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.¹³ And if a man lies not in wait, but God delivers [him] into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.¹⁴ And if a man comes presumptuously on his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.¹⁵ And he that smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.¹⁶ And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.¹⁷ And he that curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.¹⁸ And if men contend, and one smites the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but keeps his bed;¹⁹ if he rises again, and walks abroad on his staff, then he that smote him shall be innocent: he shall only pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.²⁰ And if a man smites his male slave, or his female slave, with a rod, and he dies under his hand; he shall surely be punished.²¹ Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

²² And if men strive together, and hurt a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely and no harm follows; he shall be surely fined, according to as the woman's husband shall lay on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.²³ But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,²⁴ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,²⁵ burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.²⁶ And if a man smites the eye of his male slave, or the eye of his female slave, and destroys it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.²⁷ And if he smites out his male slave's tooth, or his female slave's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.²⁸ And if an ox gores 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 innocent.²⁹ But if the ox was in the habit to gore in time past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.³⁰ If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.³¹ Whether it has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.³² If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, there shall be given to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.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 a donkey fall therein,³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner thereof, and the dead [beast] shall be his.³⁵ And if one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it: and the dead they shall also divide.³⁶ Or if it is known that the ox was in the habit to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] shall be his own.