Exodus 21:18-19-26 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

2. If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve you for six years. In the seventh year he is to be set free without having to pay anything.

3. If he was unmarried when he became your slave, he is not to take a wife with him when he leaves; but if he was married when he became your slave, he may take his wife with him.

4. If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to the master, and the man shall leave by himself.

5. But if the slave declares that he loves his master, his wife, and his children and does not want to be set free,

6. then his master shall take him to the place of worship. There he is to make him stand against the door or the door-post and pierce his ear. Then he will be his slave for life.

7. “If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to be set free, as male slaves are.

8. If she is sold to someone who intends to make her his wife, but he doesn't like her, then she is to be sold back to her father; her master cannot sell her to foreigners, because he has treated her unfairly.

9. If a man buys a female slave to give to his son, he is to treat her like a daughter.

18-19. “If there is a fight and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist, but does not kill them, they are not to be punished. If the one who was hit has to stay in bed, but later is able to get up and walk outside with the help of a stick, the one who hit them is to pay for their lost time and take care of them until they get well.

20. “If a slave owner takes a stick and beats his slave, whether male or female, and the slave dies on the spot, the slave owner is to be punished.

21. But if the slave does not die for a day or two, the master is not to be punished. The loss of his property is punishment enough.

22. “If some men are fighting and hurt a pregnant woman so that she loses her child, but she is not injured in any other way, the one who hurt her is to be fined whatever amount the woman's husband demands, subject to the approval of the judges.

23. But if the woman herself is injured, the punishment shall be life for life,

24. eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25. burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

26. “If someone hits his male or female slave in the eye and puts it out, he is to free the slave as payment for the eye.

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