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If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

"If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

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

the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.