The Scriptures 1998

Exodus 21:7-25 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

7. “And when a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she does not go out as the male servants do.

8. “If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who has engaged her to himself, then he shall let her be ransomed. He shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of him deceiving her.

9. “And if he has engaged her to his son, he is to do to her as is the right of daughters.

10. “If he takes another wife, her food, her covering, and her marriage rights are not to be diminished.

11. “And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out for naught, without silver.

12. “He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.

13. “But if he did not lie in wait, but Elohim delivered him into his hand, then I shall appoint for you a place where he is to flee.

14. “But when a man acts presumptuously against his neighbour, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him even from My altar to die.

15. “And he who smites his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.

16. “And he who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall certainly be put to death.

17. “And he who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.

18. “And when men strive together, and one smites the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed,

19. if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he who smote him shall be innocent. He only pays for lost time and sees to it that he is completely healed.

20. “And when a man smites his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, he shall certainly be punished.

21. “But if he remains alive a day or two, he is not punished; for he is his property.

22. “And when men strive and they shall smite a pregnant woman, and her children come out, yet there is no injury, he shall certainly be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband lays upon him. And he shall give through the judges.

23. “But if there is injury, then you shall give life for life,

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

25. burn for burn, wound for wound, lash for lash.