“If you purchase a Hebrew servant [because of his debt or poverty], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh [year] he shall leave as a free man, paying nothing.
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go free [after six years] as male servants do.
“Whoever kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or is found with him in his possession, must be put to death.
“If men quarrel and one strikes another with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,
“If a man strikes his male or his female servant with a staff and the servant dies at his hand, he must be punished.
“If men fight with each other and injure a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely [and the baby lives], yet there is no further injury, the one who hurt her must be punished with a fine [paid] to the woman’s husband, as much as the judges decide.
“If a man hits the eye of his male servant or female servant and it is destroyed, he must let the servant go free because of [the loss of] the eye.
“If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be cleared [of responsibility].
“If a man leaves a pit open, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
“If one man’s ox injures another’s so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the proceeds equally; they shall also divide the dead ox [between them].
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