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And he who curses his father or his mother, dying he shall die.

And when men strive, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone, or with a fist, and he does not die, but falls on his bed,

if he rises and walks about in the street on his staff, the one who struck him shall be innocent; only he shall pay his sitting; paying he shall pay for his healing.

And if a man strikes his male slave or his slave-girl with a rod, and he dies under his hand, avenging he shall be avenged.

But if he continues a day or two, he shall not be avenged, for he is his silver.

And when a man strikes the eye of his male slave, or the eye of his slave-girl and destroys it, he shall send him away free for his eye.

And if he causes the tooth of his male slave, or the tooth of his slave-girl, to fall out, he shall send him away free for his tooth.

If a ransom is put on him, he shall give the redemption of his life, according to all which is put on him.

If the ox gores a male slave or a slave-girl, he shall give thirty silver shekels to his master, and the ox shall be stoned.

the owner of the pit shall pay; he shall give silver to its owner, and the dead shall be his.

And when a man's ox strikes against the ox of his neighbor, and it dies, they shall sell the living ox, and they shall divide the silver; and they shall also divide the dead.

Or if it was known that he was an ox apt to gore from yesterday and the third day, and his owner does not watch him, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his.

If the sun has risen on him, blood is due for him; repaying he shall repay. If he has nothing, then he should be sold for his theft.

If the stolen thing finding is found in his hand alive, from ox to ass to flock animal, he shall pay double.

When a man consumes a field or a vineyard, and he lets his beast loose and it consumes another's field, he shall repay the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.

When a man gives silver or vessels to his neighbor to keep, and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall repay double.

If the thief is not found, the master of the house shall be brought to God, to see whether or not he put out his hand to his neighbor's goods.

In every matter of trespass, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, for anything lost of which it is said that it is his, the case of both of them shall come to God. Whom God declares guilty, he shall repay double to his neighbor.

When a man gives an ass or an ox to his neighbor; or a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies, or is injured, or is captured, no one seeing it,

an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods. And its owner shall take it, and he shall not repay.