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And when a man sells his daughter for a slave-girl, she shall not go out as the male slaves go out.

If she is bad in the eyes of her master who has appointed her for himself, he shall allow her redemption. He shall not have power to sell her to a foreign people, in his deceiving her.

And if he chooses her for his son, he shall do to her as is the custom of daughters.

If he takes another for himself, her flesh, her clothing, and her conjugal right shall not be diminished.

And if he does not do these three for her, she shall go out for nothing, without silver.

But he who does not lie in wait, and God lets fall into his hand, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.

if he rises and walks about in the street on his staff, the one who struck him shall be innocent; only he shall pay his sitting; paying he shall pay for his healing.

But if he continues a day or two, he shall not be avenged, for he is his silver.

But if injury occurs, you shall give life for life,

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

branding for branding, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

And when a man strikes the eye of his male slave, or the eye of his slave-girl and destroys it, he shall send him away free for his eye.

And if he causes the tooth of his male slave, or the tooth of his slave-girl, to fall out, he shall send him away free for his tooth.

Or if it was known that he was an ox apt to gore from yesterday and the third day, and his owner does not watch him, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his.

When a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.

If the thief is found breaking in, and is stricken and dies, no blood shall be shed for him.

If the sun has risen on him, blood is due for him; repaying he shall repay. If he has nothing, then he should be sold for his theft.

In every matter of trespass, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, for anything lost of which it is said that it is his, the case of both of them shall come to God. Whom God declares guilty, he shall repay double to his neighbor.

If its owner is with it, he shall not repay. If it is hired, it comes for its hire.

And when a man lures a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, paying he shall pay her dowry for a wife to himself.