1 These are the rules which you shall present to them: 2 If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve you for six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, without payment. 3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she has sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be his master’s, and he shall go out by himself. 5 If the servant plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall 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.

7 And if a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male servants do. 8 If she does not please her master, who has not designated her, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, because he has treated her deceitfully. 9 And if he designates her to his son, he shall treat her as a daughter. 10 And if he takes another [wife] for himself, he shall not reduce her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11 And if he does not do these three [things] to her, then she shall go out without payment, without money. 12 Anyone who strikes a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death. 13 And if a man did not lie in wait, but God delivered [him] into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he shall flee. 14 And if a man deliberately attacks his neighbor to kill him by deception, you shall take him from my altar, so that he may die. 15 Anyone who strikes his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death. 16 And anyone who kidnaps a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his possession, he shall surely be put to death. 17 And anyone who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

18 And if men quarrel, and they strike each other, and the man does not die, but remains in bed, 19 if he rises again, and walks outside with his staff, then the man who struck him shall be cleared of guilt; only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall pay for his full recovery. 20 And if a man strikes his servant, or his female servant, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 21 However, if he survives a day or two, he shall not be put to death, for the slave is his property.

22 And if men fight, and hurt a pregnant woman, so that her child comes out, and [yet] no harm follows, he shall certainly be fined, as the woman’s husband shall demand of him, and he shall pay as [determined] by mediators. 23 But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. 26 And if a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let him go free because of his eye. 27 And if he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let him go free because of his tooth.

28 And if an ox⁠a or any animal strikes a man or a woman to death, the animal shall certainly be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the animal shall be cleared of guilt. 29 But if the animal has been [accustomed to] striking in the past, and his owner has been warned but has not restrained it, and it killed a man or a woman, the animal shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30 If ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him. 31 If it strikes a son or a daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this ruling. 32 If the animal strikes a slave, male or female, their master shall be given thirty shekels of silver, and the animal shall be stoned.

33 And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an donkey or any animal falls into it, 34 the owner of the pit shall pay; he shall return money to its owner, and the dead [beast] shall be his.

35 And if one man’s ox or any animal of his hurts another man’s ox or any other animal belonging to that man so that it dies, then they shall sell the live one and divide the price of it, and they shall also divide the dead one. 36 Or if it is known that the animal has been [accustomed to] striking in the past, and its owner has not restrained it, he shall surely pay animal for animal, and the dead one shall be his own.

37 And if a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.