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But if death followe, then thou shalt paye life for life,

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

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

And if a man smite his seruant in the eie, or his maide in the eye, and hath perished it, hee shall let him goe free for his eye.

Also if he smite out his seruants tooth, or his maides tooth, he shall let him goe out free for his tooth.

Or if it bee knowen that the oxe hath vsed to push in times past, & his master hath not kept him, he shal pay oxe for oxe, but the dead shall be his owne.

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

If a thiefe bee founde breaking vp, and be smitten that he dye, no blood shall be shed for him.

But if it be in the day light, blood shall be shed for him: for he should make full restitution: if he had not wherewith, then shoulde he bee solde for his theft.

In all maner of trespasse, whether it bee for oxen, for asse, for sheepe, for raiment, or for any maner of lost thing, which an other chalengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shal come before the iudges, and whom the Iudges condemne, he shall pay the double vnto his neighbour.

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

Moreouer, thou shalt not do iniurie to a stranger, neither oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

For that is his couering only, and this is his garment for his skin: wherin shal he sleepe? therefore when he crieth vnto mee, I will heare him: for I am mercifull.

Thou shalt keepe thee farre fro a false matter, and shalt not slaye the innocent and the righteous: for I will not iustifie a wicked man.

Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.

Thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for ye knowe 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 seue dayes, as I commaunded thee, in the season of the moneth of Abib: for in it thou camest out of Egypt: and none shall appeare before me emptie:

Beware of him, and heare his voyce, and prouoke him not: for he will not spare your misdeedes, because my name is in him.

For mine Angel shall go before thee, & bring thee vnto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, and I will destroy them.

For ye shall serue the Lord your God, and he shall blesse thy bread and thy water, & I will take all sickenes away from the middes of thee.