^{1 Ref} Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

^{2 Ref} If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

^{3 Ref} If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

⁴ If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

^{5 Ref} But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

^{6 Ref} Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

^{7 Ref} And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

^{8 Ref} If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

⁹ And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

^{10 Ref} And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

¹¹ And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

^{12 Ref} He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

^{13 Ref} But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

^{14 Ref} But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

^{15 Ref} Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

^{16 Ref} Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

^{17 Ref} Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

^{18 Ref} If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

^{19 Ref} If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.

^{20 Ref} If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

^{21 Ref} But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

^{22 Ref} If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.

^{23 Ref} But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,