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Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own country.

"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's."

If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in 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 alone.

then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.

"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.

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

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

"Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

"When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but keeps his bed,

then if the man rises again and walks abroad with his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.

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

But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money.

"When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the eye's sake.

If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free for the tooth's sake.

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

the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.

Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.