Tree Of Life Version

Exodus 21:5-14 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

5. “But if the servant plainly states, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children, and I will not go out free,’

6. then his master is to bring him to God, then take him to a door or to a doorpost. His master is to pierce his ear through with an awl, and he will serve him forever.

7. “If a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she is not to go free as the male servants do.

8. If she does not please her master who has selected her for himself, then he is to allow her to be redeemed. He will have no power to sell her to a foreign people, seeing as he has dealt deceitfully toward her.

9. If he betroths her to his son, he must give her the rights of a daughter.

10. If he takes another wife, he is not to diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

11. If he does not provide these three to her, then she is to go free without payment.

12. “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies must surely be put to death.

13. But if he did not hunt him down, yet God caused it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may run.

14. If a man presumes to kill his neighbor with craftiness, you are to take him from My altar and put him to death.