| God told Moses, “These are the laws that you must set before them: |
| 2 If you buy a Hebrew bondman from the court, he must serve his master for six years, and in the seventh year he must go free without further obligation to make any payment. |
| 3 If he comes to his service single, he must leave his service single. If he has a wife, his wife will leave his master’s care with him. |
| 4 If he has a Jewish wife and his master gives him a non-Jewish bondwoman for a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the non-Jewish wife and her children will belong to her master, and when he leaves his master’s service, he must leave alone, i.e., without them. |
| 5 But if, in such a case, the bondman says, ‘I am fond of my master, my non-Jewish wife, and my non-Jewish children; I do not want to go free,’ |
| 6 his master must bring him to the court and they must take him to the door—which must be standing upright, like the doorpost. His master must then pierce his right earlobe with an awl, and the bondman must serve him until the Jubilee year. |
| 7 If a man sells his daughter as a bondwoman, she may not leave his service as non-Jewish bondservants do. |
| 8 If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master, who should have designated her as a wife for himself, he must assist in her redemption. He is not authorized to sell her to another master, for he betrayed her by not marrying her. |
| 9 If the master designates her as a wife for his son, the son must accord her the standard rights of girls who marry. |
| 10If he marries an additional wife, he may not reduce the first one’s food, clothing, or conjugal rights. |
| 11 If the master takes none of these three courses of action for her, she must go out free at the end of her term, without owing him any additional payment. |
| 12 An adult who strikes a man so that the latter dies must be put to death. |
| 13 If, however, he did not lie in wait but God caused it to happen to him, I will provide you a place to which he can flee. |
| 14 If a person acts intentionally against his fellow to kill him with guile, you must take him from My very Altar to die. |
| 15 Someone who strikes his father or mother and thereby inflicts a wound on them must be put to death. |
| 16 Someone who kidnaps a man and sells him, and the victim was seen in the kidnapper’s possession before the sale, must be put to death. |
| 17 Someone who curses his father or mother must be put to death. |
| 18 When two men are quarreling and one man strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and he does not die but becomes unable to work, |
| 19 if he then gets up and walks about outside by himself, as he did before, the one who struck him must be acquitted. Still, he must pay for his loss of work and provide for his complete recovery. |
