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Exodus 21:12-36 — Laws About Personal Injury

Exod.21.12-36

¹²Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must surely be put to death. ¹³But if he did not lie in wait, and God let it happen by his hand, I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. ¹⁴But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you shall take him from my altar to die. ¹⁵Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death. ¹⁶Whoever kidnaps a person and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, must surely be put to death. ¹⁷Whoever curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death. ¹⁸If men quarrel and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed, ¹⁹if he rises again and walks about outside on his staff, then the one who struck him shall be cleared; only he must pay for his lost time and see that he is thoroughly healed. ²⁰If a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his hand, he must surely be avenged. ²¹But if the slave survives a day or two, he shall not be avenged, for the slave is his property. ²²If men are fighting and they strike a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely , but there is no harm, the offender shall surely be fined as the woman's husband imposes on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. ²³But if there is harm , then you shall give life for life, ²⁴eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. ²⁶If a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free in compensation for the eye. ²⁷And if he knocks out the tooth of his male slave or the tooth of his female slave, he shall let the slave go free in compensation for the tooth. ²⁸If an ox gores a man or a woman and the person dies, the ox must surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox is clear. ²⁹But if the ox has been in the habit of goring previously, and its owner has been warned yet has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also must be put to death. ³⁰If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him. ³¹Whether it gores a son or gores a daughter, it shall be done to him according to this rule. ³²If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to the slave's master, and the ox shall be stoned. ³³If a man opens a pit, or if 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 restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his. ³⁵If one man's ox injures the ox of his neighbor and it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price, and they shall also divide the dead animal. ³⁶Or if it was known that the ox had been prone to gore previously, and its owner did not keep it in, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his.

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4/11/2026

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