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Exodus 21

 ¹Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

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

 ³If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

 ⁴If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

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

 ⁶Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

 ⁷And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

 ⁸If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

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

 ¹⁰If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

 ¹¹And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

 ¹²He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

 ¹³And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

 ¹⁴But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

 ¹⁵And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

 ¹⁶And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

 ¹⁷And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

 ¹⁸And if men strive together, and one smite another 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, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

 ²⁰And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

 ²¹Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

 ²²If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

 ²³And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

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

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

 ²⁶And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

 ²⁷And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

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

 ²⁹But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

 ³⁰If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

 ³¹Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

 ³²If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

 ³³And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;

 ³⁴The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

 ³⁵And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

 ³⁶Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

Exodus 22

 ¹If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

 ²If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

 ³If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

 ⁴If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

 ⁵If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

 ⁶If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

 ⁷If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

 ⁸If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

 ⁹For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

 ¹⁰If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

 ¹¹Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

 ¹²And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

 ¹³If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.

 ¹⁴And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

 ¹⁵But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

 ¹⁶And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

 ¹⁷If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

 ¹⁸Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

 ¹⁹Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

 ²⁰He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

 ²¹Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

 ²²Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

 ²³If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

 ²⁴And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill 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 by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

 ²⁶If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

 ²⁷For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

 ²⁸Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

 ²⁹Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

 ³⁰Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

 ³¹And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

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Matthew 19

 ¹And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;

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

 ³The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

 ⁴And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

 ⁵And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

 ⁶Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

 ⁷They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

 ⁸He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

 ⁹And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

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

 ¹¹But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

 ¹²For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

 ¹³Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.

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

 ¹⁵And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.

 ¹⁶And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

 ¹⁷And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

 ¹⁸He saith unto him, Which? 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 neighbour as thyself.

 ²⁰The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

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

 ²²But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

 ²³Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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

 ²⁵When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

 ²⁶But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

 ²⁷Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?

 ²⁸And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

 ²⁹And every one that hath forsaken houses, 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 inherit everlasting life.

 ³⁰But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.