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Exodus 21:8-17 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

8. If she does not please her master who has selected her for himself, then he is to allow her to be redeemed. He will have no power to sell her to a foreign people, seeing as he has dealt deceitfully toward her.

9. If he betroths her to his son, he must give her the rights of a daughter.

10. If he takes another wife, he is not to diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

11. If he does not provide these three to her, then she is to go free without payment.

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

13. But if he did not hunt him down, yet God caused it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may run.

14. If a man presumes to kill his neighbor with craftiness, you are to take him from My altar and put him to death.

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

16. “Anyone who steals a person and sells him, or is found with him under his hand, must surely be put to death.

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

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