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`And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

`And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.

`And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

`And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

`And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

`And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed;

if he rise, and hath gone up and down without on his staff, then hath the smiter been acquitted; only his cessation he giveth, and he is thoroughly healed.

`And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand -- he is certainly avenged;

only if he remain a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he [is] his money.

`And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;

and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.

`And when an ox doth gore man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox [is] acquitted;

`If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him;

the owner of the pit doth repay, money he doth give back to its owner, and the dead is his.

`And when a man's ox doth smite the ox of his neighbour, and it hath died, then they have sold the living ox, and halved its money, and also the dead one they do halve;

or, it hath been known that the ox is [one] accustomed to gore heretofore, and its owner doth not watch it, he certainly repayeth ox for ox, and the dead is his.

if the sun hath risen upon him, blood [is] for him, he doth certainly repay; if he have nothing, then he hath been sold for his theft;