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"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male slave, or his female slave, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

"If he comes alone, he shall leave alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall leave with him.

"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 alone.

then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

"Now if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.

"If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master 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 unfairness to her.

"And if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

"Yet if he did not lie in wait for him, but God caused him to fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.

"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.

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

"Now one who kidnaps someone, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall certainly be put to death.

"And one who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.

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 loss of time, and shall pay for his care until he is completely healed.

"And if someone strikes his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies at his hand, he shall be punished.

"If, however, the slave survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for the slave is his property.

"And if someone strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free on account of the eye.

"And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let the slave go free on account of the tooth.

"If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.

"If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.