Chapter 21
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He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
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And the one who did not hunt it, and God caused it to occur at his hand—I will set for you a place where he may flee.
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But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar to die.
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And one who strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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And one who steals a man and sells him, and he is found in his hand, shall be put to death.
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Whoever curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
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And if men strive and one man strikes his companion with a stone or with a fist and he does not die but falls to bed,
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If he rises up and walks outside on his staff, then the striker is innocent; he shall only give for his sitting idle, and he shall heal him completely.
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And if a man strikes his servant or his maidservant with a rod and he dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.
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But if he stands a day or days, he shall not be avenged, for he is his silver.
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And if men strive and strike a pregnant woman and her children come out and there is no harm, he shall be fined just as the husband of the woman imposes on him, and he shall give as the judges decide.
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And if harm occurs, then you shall give life for life.
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Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Burn for burn, wound for wound, contusion for contusion.
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If a man strikes his servant's eye or his maidservant's eye and destroys it, he shall send him free in place of his eye.
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If he knocks out a tooth of his servant or a tooth of his maidservant, he shall send him free in place of his tooth.
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If a bull gores a man or a woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned to death, and its flesh shall not be eaten, and the owner of the bull is innocent.
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If an ox gores—it from yesterday, the third day—and it was testified to its owner and he did not guard it and it caused a man or a woman to die, the ox shall be stoned and also its owner shall be put to death.
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If a ransom is imposed on him, he shall give the ransom for his life according to all that is imposed on him.
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Or if he gores a son or gores a daughter, he shall do this judgment to him.
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If the ox gores a servant or a maidservant, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to their masters, and the ox shall be stoned.
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If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it.
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The owner of the pit shall pay silver. He shall return it to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
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If a man's ox gores his neighbor's ox and it dies, then they shall sell the living ox and divide its silver, and they shall also divide the dead one.
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Or if it is known that an ox is a gorer from yesterday or three days ago and its owner did not keep it in, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead one shall be his.