18. When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, not mortally, but enough to put him in bed,
19. the one who struck the blow shall be acquitted, provided the other can get up and walk around with the help of his staff. Still, he must compensate him for his recovery time and make provision for his complete healing.
20. When someone strikes his male or female slave with a rod so that the slave dies under his hand, the act shall certainly be avenged.
21. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property.
22. When men have a fight and hurt a pregnant woman, so that she suffers a miscarriage, but no further injury, the guilty one shall be fined as much as the woman’s husband demands of him, and he shall pay in the presence of the judges.
23. But if injury ensues, 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, stripe for stripe.
26. When someone strikes his male or female slave in the eye and destroys the use of the eye, he shall let the slave go free in compensation for the eye.
27. If he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let the slave go free in compensation for the tooth.
28. When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned; its meat may not be eaten. The owner of the ox, however, shall be free of blame.
29. But if an ox was previously in the habit of goring people and its owner, though warned, would not watch it; should it then kill a man or a woman, not only must the ox be stoned, but its owner also must be put to death.
30. If, however, a fine is imposed on him, he must pay in ransom for his life whatever amount is imposed on him.
31. This ordinance applies if it is a boy or a girl that the ox gores.
32. But if it is a male or a female slave that it gores, he must pay the owner of the slave thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.
33. When someone uncovers or digs a cistern and does not cover it over again, should an ox or a donkey fall into it,
34. the owner of the cistern must make good by restoring the value of the animal to its owner, but the dead animal he may keep.