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Exodus 21:13-27 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

13. But if he have not lain in wait, and God have delivered him into his hand, I will appoint thee a place to which he shall flee.

14. But if a man act wantonly toward his neighbour, and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15. And he that striketh his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.

16. And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall certainly be put to death.

17. And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.

18. And if men dispute, and one strike the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but take to his bed,

19. --if he rise, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that struck him be guiltless; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

20. And if a man strike his bondman or his handmaid with a staff, and he die under his hand, he shall certainly be avenged.

21. Only, if he continue to live a day or two days, he shall not be avenged; for he is his money.

22. And if men strive together, and strike a woman with child, so that she be delivered, and no mischief happen, he shall in any case be fined, according as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and shall give it as the judges estimate.

23. But if mischief happen, then thou shalt give life for life,

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

25. branding for branding, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26. And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid, and it be marred, he shall let him go for his eye.

27. And if he knock out his bondman's tooth or his handmaid's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth.

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