2Wenn du einen hebräischen Sklaven kaufst, so soll er dir sechs Jahre dienen; im siebenten Jahr aber soll er freigelassen werden ohne Lösegeld. (3Mo 25,39; 5Mo 15,12; Jer 34,14)3Ist er ohne Frau gekommen, so soll er auch ohne Frau gehen; ist er aber mit seiner Frau gekommen, so soll sie mit ihm gehen.4Hat ihm aber sein Herr eine Frau gegeben und hat sie ihm Söhne oder Töchter geboren, so sollen Frau und Kinder seinem Herrn gehören, er aber soll ohne Frau gehen.5Spricht aber der Sklave: Ich habe meinen Herrn lieb und meine Frau und Kind, ich will nicht frei werden,6so bringe ihn sein Herr vor Gott und stelle ihn an die Tür oder den Pfosten und durchbohre mit einem Pfriemen sein Ohr, und er sei sein Sklave für immer. (5Mo 1,17; Ps 82,1)7Verkauft jemand seine Tochter als Sklavin, so darf sie nicht freigelassen werden wie die Sklaven. (2Mo 2,1)8Gefällt sie aber ihrem Herrn nicht, nachdem er sie für sich bestimmt hat, so soll er sie auslösen lassen. Er hat aber nicht Macht, sie unter ein fremdes Volk zu verkaufen, nachdem er sie verschmäht hat.9Hat er sie aber für seinen Sohn bestimmt, so soll er nach dem Recht der Töchter an ihr tun.10Nimmt er sich aber noch eine andere, so soll er der ersten an Nahrung, Kleidung und ehelichem Recht nichts abbrechen.11Erfüllt er an ihr diese drei Pflichten nicht, so soll sie umsonst freigelassen werden, ohne Lösegeld.
Vergehen gegen Leib und Leben
12Wer einen Menschen schlägt, dass er stirbt, der soll des Todes sterben. (1Mo 9,6; 2Mo 20,13; Mt 5,21)13Hat er ihm aber nicht nachgestellt, sondern hat Gott es seiner Hand widerfahren lassen, so will ich dir einen Ort bestimmen, wohin er fliehen kann. (4Mo 35,6; 5Mo 19,4)14Wenn aber jemand an seinem Nächsten frevelt und ihn mit Hinterlist umbringt, so sollst du ihn von meinem Altar wegreißen, dass man ihn töte. (1Kön 2,29)15Wer Vater oder Mutter schlägt, der soll des Todes sterben.16Wer einen Menschen raubt, sei es, dass er ihn verkauft, sei es, dass man ihn bei ihm findet, der soll des Todes sterben. (5Mo 24,7; 1Tim 1,10)17Wer Vater oder Mutter flucht, der soll des Todes sterben. (5Mo 27,16; Spr 20,20; Mt 15,4)18Wenn Männer miteinander streiten und einer schlägt den andern mit einem Stein oder mit der Faust, dass er nicht stirbt, sondern zu Bett liegen muss19und wieder aufkommt und ausgehen kann an seinem Stock, so soll der, der ihn schlug, nicht bestraft werden; er soll ihm aber bezahlen, was er versäumt hat, und das Arztgeld geben.20Wenn jemand seinen Sklaven oder seine Sklavin schlägt mit einem Stock, dass sie unter seinen Händen sterben, muss er bestraft werden.21Bleiben sie aber einen oder zwei Tage am Leben, so soll er nicht bestraft werden; denn es ist sein Geld.22Wenn Männer miteinander streiten und stoßen dabei eine schwangere Frau, sodass ihr die Frucht abgeht, ihr aber sonst kein Schaden widerfährt, so soll man ihn um Geld strafen, wie viel ihr Ehemann ihm auferlegt, und er soll’s geben durch die Hand der Richter.23Entsteht ein dauernder Schaden, so sollst du geben Leben um Leben, (3Mo 24,19; 5Mo 19,21; Mt 5,38)24Auge um Auge, Zahn um Zahn, Hand um Hand, Fuß um Fuß,25Brandmal um Brandmal, Wunde um Wunde, Beule um Beule. (1Mo 4,23)26Wenn jemand seinen Sklaven oder seine Sklavin ins Auge schlägt und zerstört es, der soll sie freilassen um des Auges willen.27Desgleichen wenn er seinem Sklaven oder seiner Sklavin einen Zahn ausschlägt, soll er sie freilassen um des Zahnes willen.
Schaden durch Tiere – Verlust von Tieren
28Wenn ein Rind einen Mann oder eine Frau stößt, dass sie sterben, so soll man das Rind steinigen und sein Fleisch nicht essen; aber der Besitzer des Rindes soll nicht bestraft werden. (1Mo 9,5; 4Mo 35,33)29Ist aber das Rind zuvor stößig gewesen und seinem Besitzer war’s bekannt und er hat das Rind nicht verwahrt und es tötet nun einen Mann oder eine Frau, so soll man das Rind steinigen, und sein Besitzer soll sterben.30Will man ihm aber ein Lösegeld auferlegen, so soll er geben, was man ihm auferlegt, um sein Leben auszulösen.31Ebenso soll man mit ihm verfahren, wenn das Rind einen Sohn oder eine Tochter stößt.32Stößt es aber einen Sklaven oder eine Sklavin, so soll der Besitzer ihrem Herrn dreißig Schekel Silber geben, und das Rind soll man steinigen.33Wenn jemand eine Zisterne aufdeckt oder gräbt eine Zisterne und deckt sie nicht zu und es fällt ein Rind oder Esel hinein, (3Mo 7,24; 3Mo 17,15)34so soll der Besitzer der Zisterne mit Geld dem andern Ersatz leisten, das tote Tier aber soll ihm gehören.35Wenn jemandes Rind eines andern Rind stößt, dass es stirbt, so sollen sie das lebendige Rind verkaufen und das Geld teilen und das tote Tier auch teilen.36Ist’s aber bekannt gewesen, dass das Rind zuvor stößig gewesen ist, und sein Besitzer hat es nicht verwahrt, so soll er ein Rind für das andere erstatten und das tote Tier haben.37Wenn jemand ein Rind oder ein Schaf stiehlt und schlachtet’s oder verkauft’s, so soll er fünf Rinder für ein Rind wiedergeben und vier Schafe für ein Schaf. (2Sam 12,6; Spr 6,31; Lk 19,8)
1“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. (2Mo 24,3; 5Mo 4,14; 5Mo 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. (3Mo 25,39; 5Mo 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,’ (5Mo 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. (Neh 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. (1Kor 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. (1Mo 9,6; 3Mo 24,17; 4Mo 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. (4Mo 35,11; 4Mo 35,22; 5Mo 4,41; 5Mo 19,2; 5Mo 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. (1Kön 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. (2Mo 22,4; 5Mo 24,7; 1Tim 1,10)17“Whoever curses[3] his father or his mother shall be put to death. (3Mo 20,9; 5Mo 27,16; Spr 20,20; Spr 30,11; Mt 15,4; Mk 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. (3Mo 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. (5Mo 22,18; Hi 31,11)23But if there is harm,[4] then you shall pay life for life, (5Mo 19,21)24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (3Mo 24,20; 5Mo 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. (1Mo 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. (2Mo 21,22; 2Mo 30,12; 4Mo 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. (2Mo 21,28; Sach 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.
2.Mose 21
King James Version
1Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.4If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master', and he shall go out by himself.5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:6Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.8If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.10If he take him another wife ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.11And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.12He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.13And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.16And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.18And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:19If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.21Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.22If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her , and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman' husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine .23And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye' sake.27And if he smite out his manservant' tooth, or his maidservant' tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth' sake.28If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.29But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.30If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.31Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.32If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.33And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;34The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.35And if one man' ox hurt another', that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.36Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.