1. Now these are the rights which thou shalt set before them.
2. If thou should buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4. If his master has given him a wife, and she has born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5. And if the slave shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free.
6. Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him forever.
7. And if a man should sell his daughter to be a maidslave, she shall not go out as the menslaves do.
8. If she pleases not her master, who therefore took her not unto himself to wife, then it is permitted that she be ransomed; and he may not sell her unto a strange nation when he rejects her.
9. And if he has betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10. If he takes another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.
11. And if he does not do these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12. He that smites a man so that he dies shall be surely put to death.
13. And if a man did not lie in wait but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint thee a place where he shall flee.
14. But if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with prudence, thou shalt take him from my altar that he may die.