5. But if the slave explicitly says, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,”
6. his master will present him to God and bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve him forever.
7. “ ‘And if a man sells his daughter as a slave woman, she will not go out as male slaves go out.
8. If she does not please her master who selected her, he will allow her to be redeemed; he has no authority to sell her to foreign people, since he has dealt treacherously with her.
9. And if he selects her for his son, he shall do for her according to the regulations for daughters.
10. If he takes for himself another, he will not reduce her food, her clothing, or her right of cohabitation.
11. And if he does not do for her these three, she shall go out for nothing; there will not be silver paid for her.
12. “ ‘Whoever strikes someone and he dies will surely be put to death.
13. But if he did not lie in wait and it was an accident, I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.
14. But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you will take him from my altar to die.
15. And whoever strikes his father or his mother will surely be put to death.
16. “ ‘And whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or he is found in his possession, he will surely be put to death.
17. “ ‘And one who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death.
18. “ ‘And if men quarrel and a man strikes his neighbor with a stone or with a fist and he does not die, but he is confined to bed,
19. if he stands and walks about in the outside on his staff, the striker will be unpunished; he will only pay for his inactivity toward his full recovery.”
20. And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged.
21. Yet if he survives a day or two days, he will not be avenged, because he is his money.
22. “ ‘And if men fight and they injure a pregnant woman, and her children go out and there is not serious injury, he will surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands concerning him and as the judges determine.
23. And if there is serious injury, you will give life in place of life,
24. eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth, hand in place of hand, foot in place of foot,
25. burn in place of burn, wound in place of wound, bruise in place of bruise.