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Exodus 21:7-24 New English Translation (NET)

7. “If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

8. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9. If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.

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.

20. “If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

21. However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

22. “If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

23. But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life,

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

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