1“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. (Ex 24:3; De 4:14; De 6:1)2When you buy a Hebrew slave,[1] he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. (Le 25:39; De 15:12; Jer 34:14)3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone.5But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ (De 15:16)6then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever. (Ps 82:6; Joh 10:34)7“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. (Ne 5:5)8If she does not please her master, who has designated her[2] for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. (1Co 7:5)11And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.12“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. (Ge 9:6; Le 24:17; Nu 35:30; Mt 26:52)13But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. (Nu 35:11; Nu 35:22; De 4:41; De 19:2; De 19:4; Jos 20:2)14But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. (1Ki 2:28)15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.16“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death. (Ex 22:4; De 24:7; 1Ti 1:10)17“Whoever curses[3] his father or his mother shall be put to death. (Le 20:9; De 27:16; Pr 20:20; Pr 30:11; Mt 15:4; Mr 7:10)18“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,19then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.20“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.21But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. (Le 25:45)22“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. (De 22:18; Job 31:11)23But if there is harm,[4] then you shall pay life for life, (De 19:21)24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (Le 24:20; De 19:21; Mt 5:38)25burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.26“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.27If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.28“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable. (Ge 9:5)29But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept 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 for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him. (Ex 21:22; Ex 30:12; Nu 35:31)31If it gores a man’s son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.32If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels[5] of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. (Ex 21:28; Zec 11:12; Mt 26:15)
Laws About Restitution
33“When 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 restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.35“When one man’s ox butts another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they shall share.36Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall repay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.
1Y estos son los decretos que les promulgarás:2Cuando compres un siervo hebreo, servirá seis años, pero al séptimo saldrá libre gratuitamente.3Si entró solo, saldrá solo. Si tenía mujer, entonces su mujer saldrá con él.4Pero si su señor le dio mujer, y ella le dio a luz hijos o hijas, la mujer y sus hijos serán de su señor; él saldrá solo.5Mas si el siervo dijera insistentemente: Yo amo a mi señor, a mi mujer y a mis hijos. No saldré libre.6Entonces su señor lo acercará ante ’Elohim y lo hará llegar a la puerta o a la jamba de la puerta, y su señor le perforará la oreja con un punzón, y él le servirá para siempre.7Cuando un hombre venda a su hija por sierva, no saldrá ella como suelen salir los siervos.8Si no agradara a su señor (al que había sido destinada), dejará que la rescaten, y no tendrá derecho a venderla a pueblo extranjero por haber sido desleal con ella.9Y si la destina para su hijo, hará con ella según el decreto para las hijas.10Si toma otra para sí, no disminuirá su alimento, ni su vestido, ni su deber conyugal.11Y si no hace ninguna de estas tres cosas con ella, entonces ella saldrá gratuitamente, sin dinero.12Quien hiera a un hombre y éste muera, será muerto irremisiblemente.13Pero si no estaba al acecho, sino que ’Elohim permitió que cayera en su mano, entonces Yo te señalaré lugar donde él pueda escapar.14Sin embargo, si un hombre se enfurece contra su prójimo y lo mata con alevosía, hasta de mi propio altar lo podrás aprehender para que muera.15Quien golpee a su padre o a su madre será muerto irremisiblemente.16Quien secuestre a una persona, ya sea que la venda o sea hallada en su poder, será muerto irremisiblemente.17Quien maldiga a su padre o a su madre será muerto irremisiblemente.18Si unos hombres riñen, y uno hiere a su prójimo con piedra o con el puño, pero no muere sino que cae en cama,19si se levanta, y puede entrar y salir sin su bastón, el que lo hirió será absuelto. Sólo pagará por su tiempo de reposo, y hará que lo curen completamente.20Cuando alguno hiera a su siervo o a su sierva con la vara, y muera bajo su mano, ciertamente será vengado,21pero si sobrevive un día o dos, no será vengado, porque él es propiedad suya.22Si unos hombres riñen, y hieren a una mujer encinta, y sus hijos salen sin haber más daño, ciertamente serán multados según lo que el marido de la mujer imponga sobre ellos y les sea impuesto por los jueces.23Pero si se produce una desgracia, entonces darás vida por vida,24ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie,25quemadura por quemadura, herida por herida, contusión por contusión.26Cuando alguien hiera el ojo de su siervo o el ojo de su sierva, y lo inutilice, lo dejará en libertad por causa de su ojo.27Y si le saca un diente a su siervo o a su sierva con un golpe, lo dejará en libertad por causa de su diente.28Cuando un toro acornee a un hombre o a una mujer y muera, ciertamente el toro será apedreado y no se comerá su carne, y el dueño del toro será absuelto.29Pero si el toro era acorneador desde tiempo atrás, y a su dueño se le había advertido, pero no lo había encerrado, y mata hombre o mujer, el toro será apedreado y también será muerto su dueño.30Pero si se le impone rescate, entonces dará por el rescate de su vida cuanto le sea impuesto.31Si acornea a un muchacho o a una muchacha, se hará con él conforme a este decreto.32Si el toro acornea a un siervo o a una sierva, dará a su amo treinta siclos de plata, y el toro será apedreado.33Cuando alguno destape un pozo o excave una cisterna y no la cubra, y caiga allí un toro o un asno,34el dueño de la cisterna indemnizará. Devolverá el dinero a su dueño, y lo muerto será suyo.35Y si el toro de alguno hiere al toro de su prójimo y muere, entonces venderán el toro vivo y partirán el dinero, y también partirán el buey muerto.36Pero si era notorio que el toro era acorneador desde tiempo atrás, y su dueño no lo había encerrado, pagará toro por toro, y el buey muerto será suyo.