1. “These are the right-rulings which you are to set before them:
2. “When you buy a Heḇrew servant, he serves six years, and in the seventh he goes out free, for naught.
3. “If he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4. “If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children are her master’s, and he goes out by himself.
5. “And if the servant truly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children, let me not go out free,’
6. then his master shall bring him before Elohim, and shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall serve him forever.
7. “And when a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she does not go out as the male servants do.
8. “If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who has engaged her to himself, then he shall let her be ransomed. He shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of him deceiving her.
9. “And if he has engaged her to his son, he is to do to her as is the right of daughters.
10. “If he takes another wife, her food, her covering, and her marriage rights are not to be diminished.
11. “And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out for naught, without silver.
12. “He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.
13. “But if he did not lie in wait, but Elohim delivered him into his hand, then I shall appoint for you a place where he is to flee.
14. “But when a man acts presumptuously against his neighbour, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him even from My altar to die.
15. “And he who smites his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.
16. “And he who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall certainly be put to death.
17. “And he who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.
18. “And when men strive together, and one smites the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed,
19. if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he who smote him shall be innocent. He only pays for lost time and sees to it that he is completely healed.