Exodus 21 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Ordinances for the People

(Deu 15:12–18 )

Exo 21:1"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

Exo 21:2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Exo 21:3

Exo 21:3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Exo 21:4

Exo 21:4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

Exo 21:5

Exo 21:5But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'

Exo 21:6

Exo 21:6then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

Exo 21:7

Exo 21:7"If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

Exo 21:8

Exo 21:8If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.

Exo 21:9

Exo 21:9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

Exo 21:10

Exo 21:10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

Exo 21:11

Exo 21:11If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

Personal Injuries

Exo 21:12

Exo 21:12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

Exo 21:13

Exo 21:13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

Exo 21:14

Exo 21:14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Exo 21:15

Exo 21:15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

Exo 21:16

Exo 21:16"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Exo 21:17

Exo 21:17"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Exo 21:18

Exo 21:18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

Exo 21:19

Exo 21:19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

Exo 21:20

Exo 21:20"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

Exo 21:21

Exo 21:21Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

Exo 21:22

Exo 21:22"If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.

Exo 21:23

Exo 21:23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

Exo 21:24

Exo 21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Exo 21:25

Exo 21:25burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

Exo 21:26

Exo 21:26"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

Exo 21:27

Exo 21:27If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Exo 21:28

Exo 21:28"If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

Exo 21:29

Exo 21:29But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

Exo 21:30

Exo 21:30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

Exo 21:31

Exo 21:31Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

Exo 21:32

Exo 21:32If the bull gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

Exo 21:33

Exo 21:33"If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

Exo 21:34

Exo 21:34the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

Exo 21:35

Exo 21:35"If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

Exo 21:36

Exo 21:36Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

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Exodus 21 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Ordinances for the People

Personal Injuries

Pericope