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| [1]Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them. |
[1]Hæc sunt judicia quæ propones eis. |
| [2]If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. |
[2]Si emeris servum hebræum, sex annis serviet tibi: in septimo egredietur liber gratis. |
| [3]If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. |
[3]Cum quali veste intraverit, cum tali exeat: si habens uxorem, et uxor egredietur simul. |
| [4]If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. |
[4]Sin autem dominus dederit illi uxorem, et pepererit filios et filias: mulier et liberi ejus erunt domini sui, ipse vero exibit cum vestitu suo. |
| [5]If the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: |
[5]Quod si dixerit servus: Diligo dominum meum et uxorem ac liberos; non egrediar liber: |
| [6]Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. |
[6]offeret eum dominus diis, et applicabitur ad ostium et postes, perforabitque aurem ejus subula: et erit ei servus in sæculum. |
| [7]And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. |
[7]Si quis vendiderit filiam suam in famulam, non egredietur sicut ancillæ exire consueverunt. |
| [8]If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. |
[8]Si displicuerit oculis domini sui cui tradita fuerat, dimittet eam: populo autem alieno vendendi non habebit potestatem, si spreverit eam. |
| [9]And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. |
[9]Sin autem filio suo desponderit eam, juxta morem filiarum faciet illi. |
| [10]And if he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. |
[10]Quod si alteram ei acceperit, providebit puellæ nuptias, et vestimenta, et pretium pudicitiæ non negabit. |
| [11]And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money. |
[11]Si tria ista non fecerit, egredietur gratis absque pecunia. |
| [12]He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. |
[12]Qui percusserit hominem volens occidere, morte moriatur. |
| [13]And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. |
[13]Qui autem non est insidiatus, sed Deus illum tradidit in manus ejus, constituam tibi locum in quem fugere debeat. |
| [14]But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. |
[14]Si quis per industriam occiderit proximum suum, et per insidias: ab altari meo evelles eum, ut moriatur. |
| [15]And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. |
[15]Qui percusserit patrem suum aut matrem, morte moriatur. |
| [16]And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. |
[16]Qui furatus fuerit hominem, et vendiderit eum, convictus noxæ, morte moriatur. |
| [17]And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. |
[17]Qui maledixerit patri suo, vel matri, morte moriatur. |
| [18]And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed: |
[18]Si rixati fuerint viri, et percusserit alter proximum suum lapide vel pugno, et ille mortuus non fuerit, sed jacuerit in lectulo: |
| [19]If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed. |
[19]si surrexerit, et ambulaverit foris super baculum suum, innocens erit qui percusserit, ita tamen ut operas ejus et impensas in medicos restituat. |
| [20]And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely be put to death. |
[20]Qui percusserit servum suum, vel ancillam virga, et mortui fuerint in manibus ejus, criminis reus erit. |
| [21]Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be put to death: for he [is] his money. |
[21]Sin autem uno die vel duobus supervixerit, non subjacebit pœnæ, quia pecunia illius est. |
| [22]If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine]. |
[22]Si rixati fuerint viri, et percusserit quis mulierem prægnantem, et abortivum quidem fecerit, sed ipsa vixerit: subjacebit damno quantum maritus mulieris expetierit, et arbitri judicaverint. |
| [23]And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life |
[23]Sin autem mors ejus fuerit subsecuta, reddet animam pro anima, |
| [24]Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot |
[24]oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente, manum pro manu, pedem pro pede, |
| [25]Smiting for smiting, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. |
[25]adustionem pro adustione, vulnus pro vulnere, livorem pro livore. |
| [26]And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. |
[26]Si percusserit quispiam oculum servi sui aut ancillæ, et luscos eos fecerit, dimittet eos liberos pro oculo quem eruit. |
| [27]And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. |
[27]Dentem quoque si excusserit servo vel ancillæ suæ, similiter dimittet eos liberos. |
| [28]If an oxor any animal smiting a man or a woman, that they die: then the animal shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the animal [shall be] quit. |
[28]Si bos cornu percusserit virum aut mulierem, et mortui fuerint, lapidibus obruetur: et non comedentur carnes ejus, dominus quoque bovis innocens erit. |
| [29]But if the animal was smiting in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the animal shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. |
[29]Quod si bos cornupeta fuerit ab heri et nudiustertius, et contestati sunt dominum ejus, nec recluserit eum, occideritque virum aut mulierem: et bos lapidibus obruetur, et dominum ejus occident. |
| [30]If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. |
[30]Quod si pretium fuerit ei impositum, dabit pro anima sua quidquid fuerit postulatus. |
| [31]Whether he have smote a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. |
[31]Filium quoque et filiam si cornu percusserit, simili sententiæ subjacebit. |
| [32]If the animal shall smite a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the animal shall be stoned. |
[32]Si servum ancillamque invaserit, triginta siclos argenti domino dabit, bos vero lapidibus opprimetur. |
| [33]And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass or any animal fall therein; |
[33]Si quis aperuerit cisternam, et foderit, et non operuerit eam, cecideritque bos aut asinus in eam, |
| [34]The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his. |
[34]reddet dominus cisternæ pretium jumentorum: quod autem mortuum est, ipsius erit. |
| [35]And if one man's ox or any animal hurt another's or any animals of his, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead [ox] also they shall divide. |
[35]Si bos alienus bovem alterius vulneraverit, et ille mortuus fuerit: vendent bovem vivum, et divident pretium, cadaver autem mortui inter se dispertient. |
| [36]Or if it be known that the animal hath used to smite in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay animal for animal; and the dead shall be his own. |
[36]Sin autem sciebat quod bos cornupeta esset ab heri et nudiustertius, et non custodivit eum dominus suus: reddet bovem pro bove, et cadaver integrum accipiet. |