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FEBRUARY 5
shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no not kept it confined, so that it has killed a man
right to sell her to a foreign people, since he or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its
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has dealt deceitfully with her. And if he has owner also shall be put to death. If there is
betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her imposed on him a sum of money, then he shall
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according to the custom of daughters. If he pay to redeem his life, whatever is imposed on
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takes another wife, he shall not diminish her him. Whether it has gored a son or gored a
food, her clothing, and her marriage rights. daughter, according to this judgment it shall
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11 And if he does not do these three for her, then be done to him. If the ox gores a male or
she shall go out free, without paying money. female servant, he shall give to their master
12 “He who strikes a man so that he dies shall thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be
surely be put to death. However, if he did not stoned.
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lie in wait, but God delivered him into his 33 “And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs
hand, then I will appoint for you a place where a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a don-
he may flee. key falls in it, the owner of the pit shall make
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14 “But if a man acts with premeditation it good; he shall give money to their owner,
against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, but the dead animal shall be his.
you shall take him from My altar, that he may 35 “If one man’s ox hurts another’s, so that it
die. dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide
15 “And he who strikes his father or his moth- the money from it; and the dead ox they shall
er shall surely be put to death. also divide. Or if it was known that the ox
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16 “He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if tended to thrust in time past, and its owner
he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to has not kept it confined, he shall surely pay ox
death. for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own.
17 “And he who curses his father or his moth- “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and
er shall surely be put to death. 22 slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore
18 “If men contend with each other, and one five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, 2 If the thief is found breaking in, and he is
and he does not die but is confined to his bed, struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt
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19 if he rises again and walks about outside with for his bloodshed. If the sun has risen on him,
his staff, then he who struck him shall be ac- there shall be guilt for his bloodshed. He
quitted. He shall only pay for the loss of his should make full restitution; if he has nothing,
time, and shall provide for him to be thor- then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft
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oughly healed. is certainly found alive in his hand, whether it
20 “And if a man beats his male or female ser- is an ox or donkey or sheep, he shall restore
vant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, double.
he shall surely be punished. Notwithstanding, 5 “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be
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if he remains alive a day or two, he shall not be grazed, and lets loose his animal, and it feeds
punished; for he is his property. in another man’s field, he shall make restitu-
22 “If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, tion from the best of his own field and the best
so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no of his own vineyard.
harm follows, he shall surely be punished 6 “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so
accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes that stacked grain, standing grain, or the field
on him; and he shall pay as the judges deter- is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall
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mine. But if any harm follows, then you shall surely make restitution.
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give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, 7 “If a man delivers to his neighbor money or
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hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, articles to keep, and it is stolen out of the
wound for wound, stripe for stripe. man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay
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26 “If a man strikes the eye of his male or double. If the thief is not found, then the mas-
female servant, and destroys it, he shall let him ter of the house shall be brought to the judges
go free for the sake of his eye. And if he knocks to see whether he has put his hand into his
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out the tooth of his male or female servant, he neighbor’s goods.
shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth. 9 “For any kind of trespass, whether it con-
28 “If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, cerns an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or
then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its for any kind of lost thing which another claims
flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the to be his, the cause of both parties shall come
ox shall be acquitted. But if the ox tended to before the judges; and whomever the judges
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thrust with its horn in times past, and it has condemn shall pay double to his neighbor. If
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been made known to his owner, and he has a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an
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