Exodus 21:2-21

New American Standard Bible

² “If you buy ^(A)a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall leave as a free man without a payment to you. ³ If he comes ^[a]alone, he shall leave ^[b]alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall leave with him. ⁴ If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall leave ^[c]alone. ⁵ But ^(B)if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not leave as a free man,’ ⁶ then his master shall bring him to ^[d]God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an ^[e]awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

⁷ “Now ^(C)if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to ^[f]go free ^(D)as the male slaves ^[g]do. ⁸ If she is ^[h]displeasing in the eyes of her master ^[i]who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of his ^[j]unfairness to her. ⁹ And if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. ¹⁰ If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her ^[k]food, her clothing, or ^(E)her conjugal rights. ¹¹ But if he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go ^[l]free for nothing, without payment of money.

Personal Injuries

¹² “^(F)He who strikes someone so that he dies shall certainly be put to death. ^13 (G)Yet ^[m]if he did not lie in wait for him, but ^(H)God caused him to fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee. ^14 (I)If, however, someone is enraged against his neighbor, so as to kill him in a cunning way, you are to take him even from My altar, to be put to death.

¹⁵ “And one who strikes his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.

¹⁶ “Now ^(J)one who ^[n]kidnaps someone, whether he sells him or he is found in his ^[o]possession, shall certainly be put to death.

¹⁷ “And ^(K)one who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.

¹⁸ “Now if people have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with a fist, and he does not die but ^[p]is confined to bed, ¹⁹ if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his ^[q]loss of time, and ^[r]shall pay for his care until he is completely healed.

²⁰ “And if someone strikes his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies ^[s]at his hand, he shall ^[t]be punished. ²¹ If, however, the slave ^[u]survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; ^(L)for the slave is his ^[v]property.