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Exodus 21

    ²If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

    ³With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.

    ⁴But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters: the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.

    ⁵And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

    ⁶His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

    ⁷If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

    ⁸If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

    ⁹But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

    ¹⁰And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

    ¹¹If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

    ¹²He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

    ¹³But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.

    ¹⁴If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar, that he may die.

    ¹⁵He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

    ¹⁶He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of guilt, shall be put to death.

    ¹⁷He that curseth his father, or mother, shall die the death.

    ¹⁸If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

    ¹⁹If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

    ²⁰He that striketh his bondman or bondwoman with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

    ²¹But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

    ²²If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.

    ²³But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life.

    ²⁴Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

    ²⁵Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

    ²⁶If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.

    ²⁷Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.

    ²⁸If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

    ²⁹But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, an his owner also shall be put to death.

    ³⁰And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

    ³¹If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.

    ³²If he assault a bondman or a bond woman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

    ³³If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,

    ³⁴The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

    ³⁵If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:

    ³⁶But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday and the day before, and his master did not keep him in: he shall pay ox for ox, and shall take the whole carcass.

Exodus 22

    ²If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood.

    ³But if he did this when the sun is risen, he hath committed murder, and he shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.

    ⁴If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double.

    ⁵If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to feed upon that which is other men's: he shall restore the best of whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.

    ⁶If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall make good the loss.

    ⁷If a man deliver money, or any vessel unto his friend to keep, and they be stolen away from him that received them: if the thief be found he shall restore double:

    ⁸If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be brought to the gods, and shall swear that he did not lay his hand upon his neighbour's goods,

    ⁹To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.

    ¹⁰If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or any beast, to his neighbour's custody, and it die, or be hurt, or be taken by enemies, and no man saw it:

    ¹¹There shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth his hand to his neighbour's goods: and the owner shall accept of the oath; and he shall not be compelled to make restitution.

    ¹²But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall make the loss good to the owner.

    ¹³If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that which was slain, and he shall not make restitution.

    ¹⁴If a man borrow of his neighbour any of these things, and it be hurt or die, the owner not being present, he shall be obliged to make restitution.

    ¹⁵But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it were hired and came for the hire of his work.

    ¹⁶If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.

    ¹⁷If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.

    ¹⁸Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.

    ¹⁹Whosoever copulateth with a beast shall be put to death.

    ²⁰He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.

    ²¹Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

    ²²You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.

    ²³If you hurt them they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:

    ²⁴And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

    ²⁵If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries.

    ²⁶If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

    ²⁷For that same is the only thing wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

    ²⁸Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse.

    ²⁹Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou shalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me.

    ³⁰Thou shalt do the same with the firstborn of thy oxen also and sheep: seven days let it be with its dam, the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.

    ³¹You shall be holy men to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted of before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs.

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Matthew 19

    ²And great multitudes followed him: and he healed them there.

    ³And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

    ⁴Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? And he said:

    ⁵For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

    ⁶Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.

    ⁷They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away?

    ⁸He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

    ⁹And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

    ¹⁰His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry.

    ¹¹Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given.

    ¹²For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it.

    ¹³Then were little children presented to him, that he should impose hands upon them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them.

    ¹⁴But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.

    ¹⁵And when he had imposed hands upon them, he departed from thence.

    ¹⁶And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good shall I do that I may have life everlasting?

    ¹⁷Who said to him: Why asketh thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

    ¹⁸He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness.

    ¹⁹Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

    ²⁰The young man saith to him: All these I have kept from my youth, what is yet wanting to me?

    ²¹Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come follow me.

    ²²And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad: for he had great possessions.

    ²³Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

    ²⁴And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

    ²⁵And when they had heard this, the disciples wondered very much, saying: Who then can be saved?

    ²⁶And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible.

    ²⁷Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold we have left all things, and have followed thee: what therefore shall we have?

    ²⁸And Jesus said to them: Amen, I say to you, that you, who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the seat of his majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

    ²⁹And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.

    ³⁰And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be first.