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burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

"If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.

"If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

"If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

"If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping, and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.

In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says ‘This belongs to me,' the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.

If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.

If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

"You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

for it is his only covering—it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

"You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

Keep your distance from a false charge—do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

"You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.

"You must not oppress a foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.