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And if any mischiefe follow, then thou shalt giue life for life,

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote,

Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

And if a man smite the eye of his seruant, or the eye of his mayd, that it perish, hee shall let him goe free for his eyes sake.

And if he smite out his man seruants tooth, or his mayde seruants tooth, hee shal let him goe free for his tooths sake.

If there be layed on him a summe of money, then he shall giue for the ransome of his life, whatsoeuer is layd vpon him.

Or if it bee knowen that the oxe hath vsed to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in, hee shall surely pay oxe for oxe, and the dead shall be his owne.

If a man shal steale an oxe, or a sheepe, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore fiue oxen for an oxe, and foure sheepe for a sheepe.

If a thiefe bee found breaking vp, and be smitten that he die, there shal no blood be shed for him.

If the Sunne be risen vpon him, there shall be blood shed for him: for hee should make full restitution: if he haue nothing, then he shall bee sold for his theft.

For all maner of trespasse, whether it be for oxe, for asse, for sheepe, for raiment, or for any maner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his: the cause of both parties shall come before the Iudges, and whome the Iudges shall condemne, he shall pay double vnto his neighbour.

If it be torne in pieces, then let him bring it for witnesse, and hee shall not make good that which was torne.

But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: If it bee an hired thing, it came for his hire.

Thou shalt neither vexe a stranger, nor oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

For that is his couering onely, it is his raiment for his skinne: wherein shal he sleepe? And it shal come to passe, when he crieth vnto mee, that I will heare: for I am gracious.

Keepe thee farre from a false matter: and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not iustifie the wicked.

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the words of the righteous.

Also thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for yee know the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seuen daies, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the moneth Abib: for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appeare before me emptie:

Beware of him, and obey his voice, prouoke him not: for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.