16. Death is the punishment for kidnapping. If you sell the person you kidnapped, or if you are caught with that person, the penalty is death.
17. Death is the punishment for cursing your father or mother.
18. Suppose two of you are arguing, and you hit the other with either a rock or your fist, without causing a fatal injury. If the victim has to stay in bed,
19. and later has to use a stick when walking outside, you must pay for the loss of time and do what you can to help until the injury is completely healed. That's your only responsibility.
20. Death is the punishment for beating to death any of your slaves.
21. However, if the slave lives a few days after the beating, you are not to be punished. After all, you have already lost the services of that slave who was your property.
22. Suppose a pregnant woman suffers a miscarriage as the result of an injury caused by someone who is fighting. If she isn't badly hurt, the one who injured her must pay whatever fine her husband demands and the judges approve.
23. But if she is seriously injured, the payment will be life for life,
24. eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25. burn for burn, cut for cut, and bruise for bruise.
26. If you hit one of your slaves and cause the loss of an eye, the slave must be set free.
27. The same law applies if you knock out a slave's tooth—the slave goes free.
28. A bull that kills someone with its horns must be killed and its meat destroyed, but the owner of the bull isn't responsible for the death.
29. Suppose you own a bull that has been in the habit of attacking people, but you have refused to keep it fenced in. If that bull kills someone, both you and the bull must be put to death by stoning.
30. However, you may save your own life by paying whatever fine is demanded.
31. This same law applies if the bull gores someone's son or daughter.
32. If the bull kills a slave, you must pay the slave owner thirty pieces of silver for the loss of the slave, and the bull must be killed by stoning.
33. Suppose someone's ox or donkey is killed by falling into an open pit that you dug or left uncovered on your property.