15. and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.
16. `And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee--because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because [it is] good for him with thee--
17. then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put [it] through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.
18. `It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.
19. `Every firstling that is born in thy herd and in thy flock--the male thou dost sanctify to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock;
20. before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it year by year, in the place which Jehovah doth choose, thou and thy house.
21. `And when there is in it a blemish, lame, or blind, any evil blemish, thou dost not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God;
22. within thy gates thou dost eat it, the unclean and the clean alike, as the roe, and as the hart.
23. Only, its blood thou dost not eat; on the earth thou dost pour it as water.