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Exodus 21:10-19 New English Translation (NET)

10. If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

11. If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

12. “Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

13. But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

14. But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

15. “Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

16. “Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

17. “Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

18. “If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor 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 about outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay for the injured person’s loss of time and see to it that he is fully healed.

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