1. Now these are the judgments which you will set before them.
2. If you buy a Hebrew servant, he will serve for six years, but in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
3. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife will go out with him.
4. If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.
5. However, if the servant plainly says, “I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free,”
6. then his master will bring him to the judges, then he shall also bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7. If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
8. If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He has no authority to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9. If he has designated her for his son, then he shall deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
10. If he marries another wife, then he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
11. If he does not provide these three for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.
12. He that strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
13. However, if it was not premeditated, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he may flee.
14. But if a man willfully comes upon his neighbor in order to kill him cunningly, then you must take him from My altar, that he may die.
15. He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
16. He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.
17. He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18. If men fight and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die, but must remain in bed,
19. and then if he gets up and walks around on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished. Only he must pay for his loss of time and shall see to it that he is thoroughly healed.