Hebrew Servants
And these are the judgments that you shall set before them.
When you buy a Hebrew slave, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
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 by himself.
But if the slave plainly says, “I love my master, my wife, and my sons — I will not go out free,”
then his master shall bring him to God, and bring him to the door or to the doorpost; and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
And when a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves go out.
If she is evil in the eyes of her master, who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he has no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt treacherously with her.
And if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the judgment for daughters.
If he takes another for himself, he shall not reduce her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without silver.
Personal Injury Laws
Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
But if he did not lie in wait, and God let it happen to his hand, then I will set for you a place where he may flee.
And when a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him by cunning — from my very altar you shall take him, to die.
And whoever strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
And whoever steals a man and sells him — or he is found in his hand — shall surely be put to death.
And whoever curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
And when men quarrel, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with a fist, and he does not die but falls to his bed —
if he rises and walks around outside on his staff, then the one who struck him shall go unpunished; only he shall pay for his lost time, and shall surely have him healed.
And when a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod, and the slave dies under his hand, he shall surely be avenged.
But if the slave survives a day or two, he shall not be avenged — for he is his silver.
And when men fight, and they strike a pregnant woman so that her children come out, but there is no harm — the one responsible shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband lays on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
But if there is harm, then you shall give life for life,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
And when a man strikes the eye of his male slave, or the eye of his female slave, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the sake of the eye.
And if he knocks out the tooth of his male slave or the tooth of his female slave, he shall let the slave go free for the sake of the tooth.
And when an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; and the owner of the ox is clear.
But if the ox has been in the habit of goring before, and its owner has been warned, and he did not guard it, and it kills a man or a woman — the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give the redemption price for his life, according to all that is laid on him.
Whether it gores a son or gores a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, the owner shall give thirty shekels of silver to the slave’s master, and the ox shall be stoned.
And when a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall return silver to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
And when a man’s ox strikes his neighbor’s ox and it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its silver, and the dead one they shall also divide.
Or if it was known that the ox had been in the habit of goring before, and its owner did not guard it — he shall surely repay, ox for ox, and the dead one shall be his.