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Exodus 21:14-32 Modern English Version (MEV)

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.

20. If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a rod so that he or she dies at his hand, then he shall surely be punished.

21. Nevertheless, if he survives for a day or two, then he shall not be punished, for it is his money.

22. If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her child is born prematurely, yet there is no serious injury, then he shall be surely punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23. But if there is any serious injury, then you shall give life for life,

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

25. burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

26. If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or the eye of his female servant so that it is destroyed, then he must let him go free on account of his eye.

27. If he knocks out his male servant’s tooth or his female servant’s tooth, then he shall let him or her go free on account of the tooth.

28. If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

29. But if the ox has had the habit of goring, and the owner has been made aware of it, and he has not kept it in, and it has killed a man or a woman, then the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.

30. If a ransom is set for him, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is demanded of him.

31. Whether it gored a son or gored a daughter, it will be done to him according to this rule.

32. If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, then its owner shall give thirty shekels of silver to their master, and the ox must be stoned.

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