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

"If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,

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 take care of him until he is completely healed.

"If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.

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

"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

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

the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.

"Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.

"If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

"But if the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguiltiness on his account. He shall surely make restitution; if he owns nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

"If what he stole is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.

"If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

"If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double.

"If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house shall appear before the judges, to determine whether he laid his hands on his neighbor's property.

"For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

"If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking,

an oath before the LORD shall be made by the two of them that he has not laid hands on his neighbor's property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.