21 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. 

²If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. ⁵But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: ⁶then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall 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. ⁷And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. ⁸If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ¹⁰If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. ¹¹And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money. 

¹²He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death. ¹³And 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. ¹⁴And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 

¹⁵And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 

¹⁶And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 

¹⁷And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 

¹⁸And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed; ¹⁹if 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. 

²⁰And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished. ²¹Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money. 

²²And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. ²³But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, ²⁴eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 

²⁶And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. ²⁷And if he smite out his man-servant’s tooth, or his maid-servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake. 

²⁸And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. ²⁹But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. ³⁰If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. ³¹Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. ³²If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 

³³And 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 fall therein, ³⁴the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead beast shall be his. 

³⁵And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide. ³⁶Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own. 

22 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. ²If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him. ³If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. ⁴If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double. 

⁵If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. 

⁶If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. 

⁷If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double. ⁸If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods. ⁹For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whereof one saith, This is it, the cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbor. 

¹⁰If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: ¹¹the oath of Yehovah shall be between them both, whether he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. ¹²But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. ¹³If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness: he shall not make good that which was torn. 

¹⁴And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. ¹⁵If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire. 

¹⁶And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. ¹⁷If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 

¹⁸Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live. 

¹⁹Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 

²⁰He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Yehovah only, shall be utterly destroyed. ²¹And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. ²²Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ²³If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; ²⁴and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 

²⁵If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. ²⁶If thou at all take thy neighbor’s garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down: ²⁷for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 

²⁸Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people. ²⁹Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. ³⁰Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. ³¹And ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. 

23 Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. ²Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice: ³neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause. 

⁴If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. ⁵If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him. 

⁶Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause. ⁷Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. ⁸And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ⁹And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 

¹⁰And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof: ¹¹but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. ¹²Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed. ¹³And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. 

¹⁴Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. ¹⁵The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty: ¹⁶and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field. ¹⁷Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Yehovah. 

¹⁸Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning. ¹⁹The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Yehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. 

²⁰Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. ²¹Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him. ²²But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. ²³For mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Emori, and the Hitti, and the P’rizi, and the Kena’ani, the Hivi, and the Y’vusi: and I will cut them off. ²⁴Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars. ²⁵And ye shall serve Yehovah your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. ²⁶There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. ²⁷I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. ²⁸And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivi, the Kena’ani, and the Hitti, from before thee. ²⁹I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. ³⁰By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. ³¹And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the P’lishtim, and from the wilderness unto the River [Euphrates]: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee. ³²Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. 

24 And he said unto Moshe, Come up unto Yehovah, thou, and Aharon, Nadav, and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off: ²and Moshe alone shall come near unto Yehovah; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him. ³And Moshe came and told the people all the words of Yehovah, and all the ordinances: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Yehovah hath spoken will we do. ⁴And Moshe wrote all the words of Yehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto Yehovah. ⁶And Moshe took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that Yehovah hath spoken will we do, and be obedient. ⁸And Moshe took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Yehovah hath made with you concerning all these words. 

⁹Then went up Moshe, and Aharon, Nadav, and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: ¹⁰and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness. ¹¹And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: and they beheld God, and did eat and drink. 

¹²And Yehovah said unto Moshe, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them. ¹³And Moshe rose up, and Y’hoshua his minister: and Moshe went up into the mount of God. ¹⁴And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aharon and Hur are with you: whosoever hath a cause, let him come near unto them. ¹⁵And Moshe went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount. ¹⁶And the glory of Yehovah abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moshe out of the midst of the cloud. ¹⁷And the appearance of the glory of Yehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. ¹⁸And Moshe entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moshe was in the mount forty days and forty nights.