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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; nor his field, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any of his cattle, nor whatever belongs to thy neighbour.

And Moses says to them, Be of good courage, for God is come to you to try you, that his fear may be among you, that ye sin not.

If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.

Moreover, if his master give him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master’s; and he shall go forth alone.

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

And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maid-servants depart.

And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters.

But as for him that did it not willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give thee a place whither the slayer may flee.

And if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to slay him by craft, and he go for refuge, thou shalt take him from my altar to put him to death.

Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.

(21:16) He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.

And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;

if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that smote him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.

And if a man smite his man-servant or his maid-servant, with a rod, and the party die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.

But if the servant continue to live a day or two, let not the master be punished; for he is his money.

And if one smite the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his maid-servant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye’s sake.

And if he should smite out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maid-servant, he shall send them away free for their tooth’s sake.

And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.

But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.