1 |Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:
2 |If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
3 |If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, 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 belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.
5 |But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'
6 then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
7 |If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.
8 |If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her.
9 |If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.
10 |If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
11 |If he will not do these three [things] for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without [payment of] money.
12 |He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
13 |But if he did not lie in wait [for him], but God let [him] fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.
14 |If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him [even] from My altar, that he may die.
15 |He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
16 |He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.
17 |He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18 |If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with [his] fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,
19 if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.
20 |If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.
21 |If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.
