Buying a Servant
Exodus 21, verse 1. “Now these are the ordinances you shall set before them: Exodus 21, verse 2. If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing. Exodus 21, verse 3. If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. Exodus 21, verse 4. If his lord gave him a wife, and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her lord's, and he shall go out by himself. Exodus 21, verse 5. But if the servant plainly says, ‘I love my lord, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ Exodus 21, verse 6. then his lord shall bring him to the judgment seat of God, and also to the door, or to the doorpost, and his lord shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever. Exodus 21, verse 7. “If a man sells his daughter to be a domestic, she shall not go out as the maidservants do. Exodus 21, verse 8. If she does not please her lord who betrothed her to himself, he shall let her go free. But he has no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. Exodus 21, verse 9. If he betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the right of daughters. Exodus 21, verse 10. But if he takes another wife, he shall not deprive her of necessities, clothing, and marriage rights. Exodus 21, verse 11. If he will not do these three things for her, she shall go out free, without paying money.
Responding to Violence
Exodus 21, verse 12. “He who so strikes a man that he dies shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21, verse 13. However, if he did not willfully lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hands, I will appoint for you a place where the slayer may flee. Exodus 21, verse 14. But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you shall take him from My altar that he may die. Exodus 21, verse 15. He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21, verse 16. He who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21, verse 17. Whoever kidnaps one of the children of Israel and overcomes and sells him, and he is found with him, let him surely die. Exodus 21, verse 18. “If two men revile one another, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed, Exodus 21, verse 19. if the man rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he who struck him shall be acquitted. He shall only pay for his loss of time and for his healing. Exodus 21, verse 20. If a man beats his male or female servant with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. Exodus 21, verse 21. Notwithstanding, if he remains alive a day or two, the lord shall not be punished; for he is his property. Exodus 21, verse 22. “If two men fight and hurt a woman with child, and her child is born imperfectly formed, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. Exodus 21, verse 23. But if the child is perfectly formed, he shall give life for life, Exodus 21, verse 24. eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Exodus 21, verse 25. burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. Exodus 21, verse 26. If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake. Exodus 21, verse 27. If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he shall let them go free for their tooth's sake.
Owners of Animals
Exodus 21, verse 28. “If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, then the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be acquitted. Exodus 21, verse 29. But if the bull tended to gore in times past, and it was made known to its owner, but he did not keep it confined, and it killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. Exodus 21, verse 30. But if a sum of money is imposed on him, then he shall pay the amount imposed so as to redeem his life. Exodus 21, verse 31. If a bull gores a son or daughter, it shall be done to him according to this ordinance. Exodus 21, verse 32. If a bull gores a male or female servant, he shall pay their lord thirty shekels of silver, and the bull shall be stoned. Exodus 21, verse 33. “If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, Exodus 21, verse 34. the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to their owner, but the dead animal shall be his. Exodus 21, verse 35. If any man's bull gores his neighbor's bull, and it dies, they shall sell the live bull and divide the money; and the dead bull they shall also divide. Exodus 21, verse 36. But if the bull was known to gore in times past, and its owner did not keep it confined, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
Stolen Property
Exodus 21, verse 37. “Now if a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.