The LORD said to Moses:
"These are the laws you are to set before My people.
If you purchase a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh, he shall go free without cost. If he entered service alone, he shall leave alone; if he had a wife, she shall go with him. But if his master gave him a wife and she bore children, the wife and children remain the master's, and the servant alone shall go free.
Yet if the servant declares, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children, and I do not wish to go free,' then his master must bring him before the judges. He shall be taken to the doorpost, and his ear pierced with an awl—thus he will serve his master for life.
If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she does not go free as the men do. If she displeases the master who has chosen her, she must be allowed redemption; he may not sell her to foreigners, for that would be treachery. If he selects her for his son, he must treat her as a daughter. If he takes another wife, he must not deny the first her food, clothing, or marital rights. If he fails to provide these, she shall go free without payment.
Anyone who strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death. But if it was unintentional—if God allowed it to happen—he may flee to a place of refuge I will appoint. But if a man schemes and kills deliberately, take him even from My altar, and he must die.
Whoever attacks father or mother must be put to death. Whoever kidnaps another and sells him—or is caught with him in possession—must be put to death. Whoever curses father or mother must also be put to death.
If men quarrel and one strikes another with a stone or fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed, the one who struck him is not guilty if the victim later rises and walks with a staff. But he must pay for the man's loss of time and see that he is completely healed.
If a man beats his male or female slave and the slave dies under his hand, he must be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, no punishment will follow, for the slave is his property.
If men fight and strike a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, but no harm follows, the offender shall pay the fine the woman's husband demands and the judges allow. But if harm follows, then it is life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
If a man strikes the eye of his servant or maid and destroys it, he must let them go free for the sake of the eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his servant or maid, he must let them go free for the sake of the tooth.
If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull must be stoned and its flesh not eaten. The owner will not be held guilty. But if the bull was known to gore and the owner had been warned but did not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the bull must be stoned and its owner put to death. If a ransom is demanded, he may redeem his life by paying the required price. This same law applies if the bull gores a son or daughter. If the bull gores a servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the servant's master, and the bull shall be stoned.
If a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey falls in, the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss, and the dead animal shall be his.
If one man's bull injures another's so that it dies, they must sell the live bull and divide both its value and the dead animal. But if the bull was known to gore and the owner did not restrain it, then he must pay bull for bull, and the dead animal will be his."