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Ordinances
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| Exodus 21:1 |
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"Now these are the ordinances which you are
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| Exodus 21:2 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 21:3 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 21:4 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 21:5 |
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"But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master,
my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,' |
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| Exodus 21:6 |
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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. |
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| Exodus 21:7 |
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"If a man sells his daughter as a female slave,
she is not to go free as the male slaves do. |
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| Exodus 21:8 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 21:9 |
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"If he designates her for his son, he shall
deal with her according to the custom of daughters. |
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| Exodus 21:10 |
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"If he takes to himself another woman, he may
not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. |
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| Exodus 21:11 |
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"If he will not do these three things for her,
then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money. |
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Personal
Injuries |
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| Exodus 21:12 |
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"He who strikes a man so that he dies shall
surely be put to death. |
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| Exodus 21:13 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 21:14 |
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"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. |
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| Exodus 21:15 |
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"He who strikes his father or his mother shall
surely be put to death. |
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| Exodus 21:16 |
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"He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him
or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death. |
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| Exodus 21:17 |
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"He who curses his father or his mother shall
surely be put to death. |
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| Exodus 21:18 |
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"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, |
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| Exodus 21:19 |
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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. |
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| Exodus 21:20 |
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"If a man strikes his male or female slave with
a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished. |
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| Exodus 21:21 |
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"If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance
shall be taken; for he is his property. |
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| Exodus 21:22 |
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"If men struggle with each other and strike
a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury,
he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him, and he shall
pay as the judges decide. |
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| Exodus 21:23 |
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"But if there is any further injury, then you
shall appoint as a penalty life for life, |
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| Exodus 21:24 |
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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot, |
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| Exodus 21:25 |
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burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. |
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| Exodus 21:26 |
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"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female
slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye. |
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| Exodus 21:27 |
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"And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or
female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth. |
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| Exodus 21:28 |
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"If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the
ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the
ox shall go unpunished. |
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| Exodus 21:29 |
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"If, however, an ox was previously in the habit
of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills
a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.
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| Exodus 21:30 |
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"If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall
give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him. |
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| Exodus 21:31 |
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"Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall
be done to him according to the same rule. |
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| Exodus 21:32 |
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"If the ox gores a male or female slave, the
owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall
be stoned. |
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| Exodus 21:33 |
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"If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does
not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, |
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| Exodus 21:34 |
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the owner of the pit shall make restitution;
he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his. |
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| Exodus 21:35 |
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"If one man's ox hurts another's so that it
dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also
they shall divide the dead ox. |
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| Exodus 21:36 |
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"Or if it is known that the ox was previously
in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay
ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his. |
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