And these are the laws that you shall set before them.

If you buy a Hebrew slave [who is a son of a Hebrew], he shall serve [you] for six years, but in the seventh [year] he is to go out free, for naught [without liability].

If he came by himself [unmarried], he shall go out by himself. If he was married, his wife shall go out with him.

If his master should give him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, then the woman and her children belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself.

If the slave explicitly says, “I have come to love my master, my wife and my children, I do not want to go out free.”

His master must bring him to [before] the judges. He must then bring him next to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl. He then serves his master [will be a working servant for him,] forever.

If a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out [free] in the manner of male slaves.

If she is displeasing to her master, who had not designated [for otherwise he would have designated] her as his wife, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no power [right] to sell her to an alien people [another man] for he has dealt deceitfully with [controlled] her.

If he has designated her as a wife for his son, he must grant her exactly the same rights as daughters [of Yisrael].

If he takes himself another [wife], her sustenance, her clothing and her conjugal rights he must not diminish.

If he does not do these three things to her, she goes out free with no repayment of money.

If one strikes a man and he [the victim] dies, he shall be put to death.

But if he did not lie in wait [to ambush him] but [from before] God [he was] brought it to his hand, then I will designate for you a place, to which he can flee [and find refuge].

But if a man plots against his neighbor to kill him intentionally, you may [even] take him from My altar to put him to death.

Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Whoever steals [kidnaps] a man [person from B’nei Yisrael] and sells him, if he is found in his hand, he shall be put to death.

Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

When men quarrel and one man hits his fellow with a stone or with [his] fist; and he [the victim] does not die but becomes bedridden [falls to idleness],

If he gets up and is able to walk on the outside on his own power, the one who struck him shall be acquitted. Still he must pay for his loss of work, and must pay for his complete cure [the doctor’s fee].

If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod [power], and [the slave] dies under his hand, [the death] must be avenged [judged].

However if he [the slave] survives for a day or two, [his death] is not avenged [judged], for he [the slave] is his [master’s] property.

If men will fight and they strike a pregnant woman, causing her to miscarry, but there is no fatal injury [to the woman], he [the guilty one] is to be punished with a [monetary] penalty when the husband demands compensation. He shall pay as determined by the judges.

However if there is a fatal injury, you shall give [up] a life for a life.

[Compensation of] an eye for an eye, [of] a tooth for a tooth, [of] a hand for a hand, [of] a foot for a foot.

[Compensation of] a burn for a burn, [of] a wound for a wound, [of] a bruise [beating] for a bruise [beating].

If a man strikes the eye of his slave, or the eye of his female slave, and destroys [blinds] it, he shall set him [the slave] free as compensation for the eye.

If [he knocks out] the tooth of his slave, or knocks out the tooth of his female slave, he shall set him [the slave] free as compensation for the tooth.

If an ox gores a man or woman and the victim dies, the ox shall be stoned [to death], and its flesh may not be eaten. The owner of the ox shall go unpunished.

But if the ox had gored yesterday and the day before, and a warning was given to its owner, but he had not taken proper precautions to guard it, and kills a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned, and the owner also shall die [by Divine decree].

When an atonement fine shall be imposed on him, he must give for the redemption of his soul whatever sum is imposed on him.

Whether it is a son [a minor lad] [of Yisrael] that is gored [by the ox] or a daughter [a minor girl] [of Yisrael] that it gored, this law shall apply to it.

If the ox gored a male or female slave, he must give thirty silver shekalim [selaim] to their master, and the ox must be stoned.

If a man uncovers a pit, or if a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it;

The owner of the pit must pay. He must compensate its owner with money, and the dead [animal] remains his [its original owner’s] possesion.

If a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they shall sell the live ox and divide the money received for it. They shall also divide [the value of] the dead animal.

If it was known that it was a goring ox from yesterday and the day before, but he had not taken proper precaution to guard it, then he must pay full compensation, an ox for an ox. The dead [animal] remains in the possession [of its owner].

If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and then slaughters or sells it, he must pay five oxen for each ox, and four sheep for each sheep.