15. “Anyone who strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
16. “Anyone who steals a person and sells him, or is found with him under his hand, must surely be put to death.
17. “Whoever curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
18. “If people quarrel, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and the other does not die but lies in bed,
19. if he rises again and walks around on his staff, then the one that struck him he will be cleared. But he must pay for the loss of his time and help him to be thoroughly healed.
20. “If a man strikes his male or female servant with a staff, who dies by his hand, he must surely be punished.
21. Notwithstanding, if the servant gets up in a day or two he will not be punished, for he is his property.
22. “If men fight, and hit a pregnant woman so that her child is born early, yet no harm follows, the one who hit her is to be strictly fined, according to what the woman’s husband demands of him. He must pay as the judges determine.
23. But if any harm follows, then you are to penalize life for life,
24. eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25. burn for burn, wound for wound, blow for blow.
26. “If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let him go free for the sake of his eyesight.
27. If he strikes out his slave’s tooth, he must let him go free for the sake of his tooth.
28. “If an ox gores a man or a woman so that they die, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat is not to be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be cleared.