Exodus 21
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
1Hæc sunt judicia quæ propones eis.
2“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
2Si emeris servum hebræum, sex annis serviet tibi: in septimo egredietur liber gratis.
3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
3Cum quali veste intraverit, cum tali exeat: si habens uxorem, et uxor egredietur simul.
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 by himself.
4Sin autem dominus dederit illi uxorem, et pepererit filios et filias: mulier et liberi ejus erunt domini sui, ipse vero exibit cum vestitu suo.
5But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
5Quod si dixerit servus: Diligo dominum meum et uxorem ac liberos; non egrediar liber:
6then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
6offeret eum dominus diis, et applicabitur ad ostium et postes, perforabitque aurem ejus subula: et erit ei servus in sæculum.
7“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
7Si quis vendiderit filiam suam in famulam, non egredietur sicut ancillæ exire consueverunt.
8If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
8Si displicuerit oculis domini sui cui tradita fuerat, dimittet eam: populo autem alieno vendendi non habebit potestatem, si spreverit eam.
9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
9Sin autem filio suo desponderit eam, juxta morem filiarum faciet illi.
10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
10Quod si alteram ei acceperit, providebit puellæ nuptias, et vestimenta, et pretium pudicitiæ non negabit.
11If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
11Si tria ista non fecerit, egredietur gratis absque pecunia.
12“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
12Qui percusserit hominem volens occidere, morte moriatur.
13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
13Qui autem non est insidiatus, sed Deus illum tradidit in manus ejus, constituam tibi locum in quem fugere debeat.
14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
14Si quis per industriam occiderit proximum suum, et per insidias: ab altari meo evelles eum, ut moriatur.
15“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
15Qui percusserit patrem suum aut matrem, morte moriatur.
16“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
16Qui furatus fuerit hominem, et vendiderit eum, convictus noxæ, morte moriatur.
17“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
17Qui maledixerit patri suo, vel matri, morte moriatur.
18“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;
18Si rixati fuerint viri, et percusserit alter proximum suum lapide vel pugno, et ille mortuus non fuerit, sed jacuerit in lectulo:
19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
19si surrexerit, et ambulaverit foris super baculum suum, innocens erit qui percusserit, ita tamen ut operas ejus et impensas in medicos restituat.
20“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
20Qui percusserit servum suum, vel ancillam virga, et mortui fuerint in manibus ejus, criminis reus erit.
21Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
21Sin autem uno die vel duobus supervixerit, non subjacebit pœnæ, quia pecunia illius est.
22“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
22Si rixati fuerint viri, et percusserit quis mulierem prægnantem, et abortivum quidem fecerit, sed ipsa vixerit: subjacebit damno quantum maritus mulieris expetierit, et arbitri judicaverint.
23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
23Sin autem mors ejus fuerit subsecuta, reddet animam pro anima,
24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
24oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente, manum pro manu, pedem pro pede,
25burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
25adustionem pro adustione, vulnus pro vulnere, livorem pro livore.
26“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
26Si percusserit quispiam oculum servi sui aut ancillæ, et luscos eos fecerit, dimittet eos liberos pro oculo quem eruit.
27If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
27Dentem quoque si excusserit servo vel ancillæ suæ, similiter dimittet eos liberos.
28“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
28Si bos cornu percusserit virum aut mulierem, et mortui fuerint, lapidibus obruetur: et non comedentur carnes ejus, dominus quoque bovis innocens erit.
29But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
29Quod si bos cornupeta fuerit ab heri et nudiustertius, et contestati sunt dominum ejus, nec recluserit eum, occideritque virum aut mulierem: et bos lapidibus obruetur, et dominum ejus occident.
30If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
30Quod si pretium fuerit ei impositum, dabit pro anima sua quidquid fuerit postulatus.
31Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
31Filium quoque et filiam si cornu percusserit, simili sententiæ subjacebit.
32If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
32Si servum ancillamque invaserit, triginta siclos argenti domino dabit, bos vero lapidibus opprimetur.
33“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
33Si quis aperuerit cisternam, et foderit, et non operuerit eam, cecideritque bos aut asinus in eam,
34the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
34reddet dominus cisternæ pretium jumentorum: quod autem mortuum est, ipsius erit.
35“If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
35Si bos alienus bovem alterius vulneraverit, et ille mortuus fuerit: vendent bovem vivum, et divident pretium, cadaver autem mortui inter se dispertient.
36Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
36Sin autem sciebat quod bos cornupeta esset ab heri et nudiustertius, et non custodivit eum dominus suus: reddet bovem pro bove, et cadaver integrum accipiet.
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