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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" /><title>Exodus 21 NIV</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><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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/exodus/21.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“These are the laws you are to set before them:</p> <p class="sectionhead">Hebrew Servants</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>then his master must take him before the judges. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or before God">a</a></sup></span> He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or master so that he does not choose her">b</a></sup></span> he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Personal Injuries</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Anyone who attacks <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or kills">c</a></sup></span> their father or mother is to be put to death.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or with a tool">d</a></sup></span> and the victim does not die but is confined to bed, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or she has a miscarriage">e</a></sup></span> but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 12 ounces or about 345 grams">f</a></sup></span> of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>“If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/21-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>before God</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>master so that he does not choose her</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>kills</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>with a tool</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>she has a miscarriage</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">32</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 12 ounces or about 345 grams</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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