Exodus: 21-24
Ex:21:1: Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Ex:21:2: If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall
serve: and
in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Ex:21:3: If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself:
if he
were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Ex:21:4: If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him
sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and
he shall go out by himself.
Ex:21:5: And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my
wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Ex:21:6: Then 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.
Ex:21:7: And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall
not go out as the menservants do.
Ex:21:8: If 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.
Ex:21:9: And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with
her after the manner of daughters.
Ex:21:10: If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her
duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Ex:21:11: And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go
out free without money.
Ex:21:12: He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put
to death.
Ex:21:13: And 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.
Ex:21:14: But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay
him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Ex:21:15: And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely
put to death.
Ex:21:16: And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be
found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Ex:21:17: And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely
be put to death.
Ex:21:18: And if men strive together, and one smite another with a
stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
Ex:21:19: If 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.
Ex:21:20: And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod,
and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
Ex:21:21: Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two,
he shall not
be punished: for he is his money.
Ex:21:22: If 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's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as
the judges determine.
Ex:21:23: And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for
life,
Ex:21:24: Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Ex:21:25: Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Ex:21:26: And 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's sake.
Ex:21:27: And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's
tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Ex:21:28: If 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.
Ex:21:29: But 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.
Ex:21:30: If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give
for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
Ex:21:31: Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according
to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
Ex:21:32: If 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.
Ex:21:33: And 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;
Ex:21:34: The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto
the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
Ex:21:35: And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they
shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also
they shall divide.
Ex:21:36: Or 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.
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Ex:22:1: If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill
it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a
sheep.
Ex:22:2: If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten
that he die,
there shall no blood be shed for him.
Ex:22:3: If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood
shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he
shall
be sold for his theft.
Ex:22:4: If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive,
whether
it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
Ex:22:5: If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be
eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of
the best
of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
Ex:22:6: If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that
the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith;
he
that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Ex:22:7: If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money
or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found,
let
him pay double.
Ex:22:8: If the thief be not found, then the master of the
house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto
his
neighbour's goods.
Ex:22:9: For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox,
for ass,
for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another
challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the
judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his
neighbour.
Ex:22:10: If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or
an ox, or
a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away,
no man seeing it:
Ex:22:11: Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them
both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner
of it
shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
Ex:22:12: And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution
unto
the owner thereof.
Ex:22:13: If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it
for witness,
and he shall not make good that which was torn.
Ex:22:14: And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and
it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make
it good.
Ex:22:15: But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall
not make it
good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
Ex:22:16: And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed,
and lie
with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
Ex:22:17: If her father utterly refuse to give her unto
him, he shall
pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Ex:22:18: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Ex:22:19: Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put
to death.
Ex:22:20: He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the
LORD only,
he shall be utterly destroyed.
Ex:22:21: Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress
him: for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Ex:22:22: Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless
child.
Ex:22:23: If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry
at all unto
me, I will surely hear their cry;
Ex:22:24: And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you
with the
sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Ex:22:25: If thou lend money to any of my people that is
poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon
him
usury.
Ex:22:26: If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to
pledge, thou
shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Ex:22:27: For that is his covering only, it is his raiment
for his
skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he
crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Ex:22:28: Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the
ruler of thy
people.
Ex:22:29: Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy
ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto
me.
Ex:22:30: Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with
thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt
give
it me.
Ex:22:31: And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall
ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the
dogs.
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Ex:23:1: Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not
thine
hand with
the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Ex:23:2: Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither
shalt
thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Ex:23:3: Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his
cause.
Ex:23:4: If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going
astray, thou
shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Ex:23:5: If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying
under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with
him.
Ex:23:6: Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in
his cause.
Ex:23:7: Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent
and righteous
slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Ex:23:8: And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth
the wise,
and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Ex:23:9: Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye
know the heart
of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Ex:23:10: And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt
gather in
the fruits thereof:
Ex:23:11: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and
lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts
of
the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard,
and with thy oliveyard.
Ex:23:12: Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh
day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy
handmaid,
and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Ex:23:13: And in all things that I have said unto you be
circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be
heard
out of thy mouth.
Ex:23:14: Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in
the year.
Ex:23:15: Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread:
(thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time
appointed
of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall
appear before me empty:)
Ex:23:16: And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy
labours,
which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which
is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of
the field.
Ex:23:17: Three times in the year all thy males shall appear
before
the Lord GOD.
Ex:23:18: Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice
with leavened
bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
Ex:23:19: The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou
shalt bring
into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother's milk.
Ex:23:20: Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee
in the
way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Ex:23:21: Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him
not; for he
will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Ex:23:22: But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do
all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary
unto
thine adversaries.
Ex:23:23: For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring
thee in unto
the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
Ex:23:24: Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve
them, nor
do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite
break down their images.
Ex:23:25: And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall
bless
thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst
of thee.
Ex:23:26: There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren,
in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Ex:23:27: I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy
all the
people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn
their backs unto thee.
Ex:23:28: And I will send hornets before thee, which shall
drive out
the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Ex:23:29: I will not drive them out from before thee in
one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply
against thee.
Ex:23:30: By little and little I will drive them out from
before thee,
until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Ex:23:31: And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even
unto the
sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will
deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive
them out before thee.
Ex:23:32: Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with
their gods.
Ex:23:33: They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make
thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare
unto
thee.
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Ex:24:1: And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD,
thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and
worship ye afar
off.
Ex:24:2: And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but
they shall not
come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
Ex:24:3: And Moses came and told the people all the words
of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice,
and
said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
Ex:24:4: And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and
rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve
pillars,
according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Ex:24:5: And he sent young men of the children of Israel,
which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto
the LORD.
Ex:24:6: And Moses took half of the blood, and put it
in basons; and
half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Ex:24:7: And he took the book of the covenant, and read
in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will
we do, and
be obedient.
Ex:24:8: And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on
the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath
made
with
you concerning all these words.
Ex:24:9: Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu,
and seventy
of the elders of Israel:
Ex:24:10: And they saw the God of Israel: and there was
under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were
the body of
heaven in his clearness.
Ex:24:11: And upon the nobles of the children of Israel
he laid not
his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Ex:24:12: And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me
into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law,
and
commandments
which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Ex:24:13: And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua:
and Moses went
up into the mount of God.
Ex:24:14: And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for
us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you:
if any
man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
Ex:24:15: And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud
covered the
mount.
Ex:24:16: And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai,
and the
cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out
of the midst of the cloud.
Ex:24:17: And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like
devouring
fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Ex:24:18: And Moses went into the midst of the cloud,
and gat him up
into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
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