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then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him -- to the age.
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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;
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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.
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`And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.
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`If another [woman] he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;
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and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.
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`He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;
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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.
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`And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.
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`And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
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`And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.
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`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
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`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;
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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.
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`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;
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only if he remain a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he [is] his money.
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`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges;
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and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life,
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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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`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;