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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Exodus 21 WEB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</a> > Exodus 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/20.htm" title="Exodus 20">◄</a> Exodus 21 <a href="../exodus/22.htm" title="Exodus 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">World English Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/kjv/heb/exodus/21.shtml"> [Par] </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Laws for Servants<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../deuteronomy/15.htm#12">Deuteronomy 15:12-18</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If 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, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money. </p> <p class="hdg">Personal Injury Laws</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>if 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. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned. </p> <p class="hdg">Laws about Restitution</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“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, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/21-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Or 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. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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