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Chapter 21

1: Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

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 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 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: 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 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 awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

7: And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as themenservants do.

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: And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10: If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

11: And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

12: He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

13: And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither heshall flee.

14: But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15: And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to 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: And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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18: And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and hedie not, but keepeth his bed:

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: 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: Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

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: And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

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