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Exodus 21:4-19 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

4. if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters--the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself.

5. `And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons--I do not go out free;

6. then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him--to the age.

7. `And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

8. if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

9. `And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

10. `If another [woman] he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

11. and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.

12. `He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

13. as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.

14. `And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

15. `And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

16. `And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

17. `And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

18. `And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed;

19. if he rise, and hath gone up and down without on his staff, then hath the smiter been acquitted; only his cessation he giveth, and he is thoroughly healed.

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