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Exodus 21 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Ordinances for the People

(Deu 15:12–18 )

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:1 - Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:3 - If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4 - If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:5 - But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6 - Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 - And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:9 - And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:10 - And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:11 - And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

Personal Injuries

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:12 - He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:13 - But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:14 - But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:15 - Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:16 - Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:17 - Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19 - If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20 - If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21 - But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:22 - If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:23 - But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:24 - Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:25 - Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29 - But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:30 - If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:31 - If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32 - If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:33 - If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:34 - The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35 - And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36 - But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.
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