1 Now these are the judgments {mishpatim: covenant case-rulings} that you shall set {tasim: official presentation} before them.
2 If you buy a Hebrew {ivri: ethnic designation} servant, he shall serve for six years. In the seventh year, he shall go out to freedom {khofshi: released status}, without payment.
3 If he comes by himself {be-gappo: completely alone}, he shall go out by himself. If he is a husband {ba’al: marital head}, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong {tihyeh: legal assignment} to her master, and he shall go out by himself {vegapo: alone departure}.
5 But if the servant {eved: voluntary bond} says, “I have loved my master, my wife, and my children, and I will not go out as a free man {chofshi: release from service}.”
6 Then his master shall bring him before God {haelohim: Covenant Judge}, and bring him to the door or to the doorpost; and his master shall pierce his ear {ozno: hearing organ} with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7 And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she shall not be released {tetse: legal release} like the male servants {haavadim: male slaves}.
8 If she is displeasing {ra‘ah: not found favorable} in the eyes of her master who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He must not have authority to sell her to a foreign people, since he has acted treacherously {bagad: broken faith} against her.
9 And if he appoints her for his son {ben: legal heir}, he shall do for her according to the judgment {mishpat: customary legal provision} of the daughters.
10 If he takes another wife for himself, he must not diminish her food {sheerah: essential sustenance}, her clothing, or her marital rights {onatah: conjugal entitlement}.
11 And if he does not perform these three obligations for her, she shall go out free {khinnam: without obligation} without money {kasef: payment in silver}.
12 Whoever strikes {makah: unlawful attack} a man and he dies, he must be put to death {mot: judicial execution}.
13 If he did not lie in wait but God {Elohim, Sovereign Arranger} delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place {makom: designated location} where he may flee.
14 And if a man acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him with cunning {armah: premeditated deceit}, you shall take him from My altar {mizbechi: sacred asylum}, that he may die.
15 And whoever strikes his father {aviv: parental honor} or his mother shall surely be put to death {yumat: compulsory execution}.
16 Anyone who steals a man {ish: male person} and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death {mot: by execution}.
17 Anyone who curses {mekalel: formal malediction} his father or his mother shall surely be put to death {yumath: capital sanction}.
18 And if men quarrel {yirivun: physical dispute}, and a man strikes his companion with a stone or with a fist, and he does not die but falls to bed {mishkav: remains incapacitated}.
19 If he rises and walks outside upon his staff, then the striker {makeh: injurer} is acquitted; he shall pay only for his sitting {shivto: period of inactivity}, and he shall certainly cause him to be healed.
20 And if a man strikes {ya-keh: deliberate assault} his male slave or his female slave with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be avenged {na-qom: to exact retribution}.
21 However, if the slave continues for a day or two, he will not be avenged {yivvaqem: legal remedy withheld}, for he is his silver {kaspo: monetary property}.
22 And when men fight and strike a pregnant {harah: expecting a child} woman and her children emerge but there is no harm {ason: serious injury}, the offender must be punished according to what the woman’s husband sets and must pay through the judges.
23 If harm {ason: fatal incident} occurs, you shall give life {nephesh: life essence} for life.
24 An eye {ayin: bodily organ} for {tahat: legal equivalence} an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.
25 Burn {keviyyah: Thermal Injury} for burn, wound {petsa: Laceration Injury} for wound, bruise for bruise.
26 And if a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and ruins it, he must let him go free {le-chofshi: release from service} in compensation {tachat: substitute payment} for his eye.
27 And if he causes the tooth of his male servant or the tooth of his female servant to fall out, he must send him away to freedom {chafshi: release from servitude} as compensation {tachat: substitution payment} for his tooth.
28 And if an ox {shor: domesticated bull} gores a man or a woman and the person dies, the ox shall surely be stoned, its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be declared innocent {naki: declared innocent}.
29 But if the bull is a goring animal {nagach: persistent attacker}, and it has been testified to its owners {ba’alav: responsible keepers}, and they have not kept it guarded, and it kills a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall be put to death.
30 If a ransom {kofer: price of release} is imposed on him, he must give redemption {pidyon: payment to secure freedom} for his life equal to whatever is imposed on him.
31 And if it gores {yigach: forceful piercing} a son or a daughter, according to this judgment {mishpat: legal ruling} it shall be done to him.
32 And if the bull {shor: powerful animal} gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give thirty shekels of silver to the master {adonav: lawful proprietor}, and the bull shall be stoned.
33 And if a man opens a pit {bor: concealed hazard} or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox {shor: draft animal} or a donkey falls into it,
34 The owner of the pit {bor: liability source} must pay silver to the animal’s owner, and the dead animal {hamet: carcass} will be his.
35 And if a man’s ox strikes his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they shall sell the living ox and divide its price {kaspo: silver compensation}; and they shall also divide the dead animal {met: carcass}.
36 But if it is known that the bull was a habitual gorer {naggach: repeatedly charging} from yesterday or the day before yesterday, and its owner did not guard it {yishmerennu: restrain adequately}, he must pay bull for bull, and the dead animal will be his.