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Exodus

Laws About Personal Injuries

Exodus 21:12-36
12Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. 13But if he did not lie in wait, and God caused it to meet his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14If, however, a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor to kill him by craftiness, you shall take him even from my altar, that he may die. 15Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 16Whoever steals a man and sells him, and he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death. 17Whoever curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 18When men contend and one strikes the other with a stone or with a fist, and he does not die but falls to his bed, 19if he rises and walks about outside upon his staff, then the one who struck him shall be clear, except that he shall pay for his loss of time and shall surely cause him to be healed. 20When a man strikes his servant or his maidservant with a staff and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be avenged. 21Yet if he remains a day or two days, he shall not be avenged, for he is his silver. 22When men struggle and strike a pregnant woman so that her children come out, and there is no harm, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband imposes upon him, and he shall give through the judges. 23But if harm occurs, then you shall give life for life. 24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. 25Burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26When a man strikes the eye of his servant or the eye of his maidservant and destroys it, he shall let him go free in place of his eye. 27And if he knocks out the tooth of his servant or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall let him go free in place of his tooth. 28When an ox gores a man or a woman so that he dies, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be innocent. 29But if the ox was accustomed to gore from yesterday and the day before, and its owner was warned but did not keep it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give the redemption of his life according to all that is imposed on him. 31Whether it gores a son or it gores a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. 32If the ox gores a servant or a maidservant, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned. 33When a man opens a pit or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall return silver to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his. 35When one man's ox strikes his neighbor's ox so that it dies, then they shall sell the living ox and divide its silver, and they shall also divide the dead ox. 36Or if it was known that the ox was a goring ox from yesterday and the day before, and its owner did not keep it in, he shall surely make restitution: ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his.
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