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And if he selects her for his son, he shall do for her according to the regulations for daughters.

But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you will take him from my altar to die.

And whoever strikes his father or his mother will surely be put to death.

"‘And whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or he is found in his possession, he will surely be put to death.

"‘And one who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death.

"‘And if men quarrel and a man strikes his neighbor with a stone or with a fist and he does not die, but he is confined to bed,

if he stands and walks about in the outside on his staff, the striker will be unpunished; he will only pay for his inactivity toward his full recovery."

And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged.

Yet if he survives a day or two days, he will not be avenged, because he is his money.

"‘And if a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall release him as free in place of his eye.

And if he causes the tooth of his male slave or the tooth of his female slave to fall out, he will release him as free in place of his tooth.

If a ransom is set on him, he will pay the redemption money for his life according to all that is set on him.

If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, he will give thirty shekels of silver to his master, and the ox will be stoned.

And if a man's ox injures the ox of his neighbor and it dies, they will sell the living ox and divide the money, and they will also divide the dead one.

(If the sun has risen over him, there is bloodguilt for him. He will make full restitution. If he does not have enough, he will be sold for his theft.

If indeed the stolen item is found in his possession alive, from ox to donkey to small livestock, he will make double restitution.

"‘If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard and he releases his livestock and it grazes in the field of another, he will make restitution from the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.

"‘If a man gives to his neighbor money or objects to watch over and it is stolen from the house of the man, if the thief is found, he will make double restitution.

If the thief is not found, the owner of the house will be brought to the sanctuary to learn whether or not he reached out his hand to his neighbor's possession.

Concerning every account of transgression—concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, concerning small livestock, concerning clothing, concerning all lost property—where someone says, "This belongs to me," the matter of the two of them will come to God; whomever God declares guilty will make double restitution to his neighbor.