Catholic Public Domain Version

Exodus 21:20-36 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

20. Whoever strikes his male or female servant with a staff, and if they have died by his hands, he shall be guilty of a crime.

21. But if he survives for one day or two, he shall not be subject to punishment, because it is his money.

22. If men will have quarreled, and one of them has struck a pregnant woman, and as a result she miscarries, but she herself survives, he shall be subject to as much damage as the husband of the woman shall petition from him, or as arbitrators shall judge.

23. But if her death will have followed, he will repay a life for a life,

24. an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,

25. a scrape for a scrape, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise.

26. If anyone will have struck the eye of his male or female servant, having left them with one eye, he shall release them freely, because of the eye that he has put out.

27. Likewise, if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female servant, he shall similarly release them freely.

28. If an ox has struck a man or a woman with his horn, and if they die, it shall be stoned. And its flesh shall not be eaten; also, the owner of the ox will be innocent.

29. But if the ox had been pushing with his horn, from yesterday and the day before, and they warned his owner, but he did not confine it, and it will have killed a man or a woman, then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner shall be killed.

30. But if they have imposed a price on him, he shall give, in exchange for his life, whatever is asked.

31. Likewise, if it has struck a son or a daughter with its horns, it shall be subject to a similar verdict.

32. If it attacks a male or female servant, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to their lord, yet truly the ox shall be stoned.

33. If a man digs or opens a cistern, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

34. then the owner of the cistern shall repay the price of the beasts, and what is dead will belong to him.

35. If the ox of a stranger wounds the ox of another, and it has died, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the price, but the carcass of the dead one they shall distribute between them.

36. But if he knew that his ox had pushed with its horns, yesterday and the day before, and its owner did not confine it, then he shall repay an ox for an ox, and he will receive the whole carcass."