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Exodus 21:6-25 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

7. If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

8. If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

9. But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10. And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

11. If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

12. He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

13. But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.

14. If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar, that he may die.

15. He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

16. He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of guilt, shall be put to death.

17. He that curseth his father, or mother, shall die the death.

18. If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

19. If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

20. He that striketh his bondman or bondwoman with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

21. But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

22. If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.

23. But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life.

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

25. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

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