Ex 21:1 "Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:
Ex 21:2 ¶ "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.
Ex 21:3 "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.
Ex 21:4 "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.
Ex 21:5 "But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'
Ex 21:6 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.
Ex 21:7 ¶ "If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.
Ex 21:8 "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.
Ex 21:10 "If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
Ex 21:11 "If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
Ex 21:12 ¶ "He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
Ex 21:13 "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.
Ex 21:14 "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.
Ex 21:15 ¶ "He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Ex 21:16 ¶ "He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.
Ex 21:17 ¶ "He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Ex 21:18 ¶ "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,
Ex 21:19 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.
Ex 21:20 ¶ "If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.
Ex 21:21 "If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.