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Exodus Chapter 21

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Exodus 21

1"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
Deuteronomy 4:14, Deuteronomy 4:14, Deuteronomy 6:20, Deuteronomy 6:20, Exodus 24:3
2"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
Deuteronomy 15:12, Deuteronomy 15:15, Deuteronomy 15:12, Deuteronomy 15:15, Exodus 12:44
3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Deuteronomy 15:12, Deuteronomy 15:14, Deuteronomy 15:12, Deuteronomy 15:14
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.
5But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'
2 Corinthians 5:14, 2 Corinthians 5:15, Deuteronomy 15:16, Deuteronomy 15:17, 2 Corinthians 5:14
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 for ever.
Deuteronomy 15:17, Deuteronomy 15:17, Leviticus 25:40, Leviticus 25:40, Deuteronomy 19:17
7"If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
Nehemiah 5:5, Nehemiah 5:5, Exodus 21:2, Exodus 21:3, Exodus 21:2
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, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.
Exodus 8:29, Malachi 2:11, Malachi 2:15, Deuteronomy 21:11, Deuteronomy 21:14
9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
1 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Corinthians 7:6, 1 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Corinthians 7:6
11If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
Genesis 9:6, Genesis 9:6, Matthew 26:52, Leviticus 24:17, Matthew 26:52
13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
Joshua 20:2, Joshua 20:9, Joshua 20:2, Joshua 20:9, Deuteronomy 4:41
14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
1 Kings 2:28, 1 Kings 2:34, 1 Kings 2:28, 1 Kings 2:34, Hebrews 10:26
15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:17, 1 Timothy 1:9, Deuteronomy 27:24, Deuteronomy 21:18
16"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 24:7, Deuteronomy 24:7, 1 Timothy 1:10, 1 Timothy 1:10, Exodus 22:4
17"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Proverbs 20:20, Proverbs 20:20, Mark 7:10, Mark 7:11, Mark 7:10
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;
Exodus 21:20, Exodus 21:20, 2 Samuel 14:6, Exodus 21:22, Exodus 2:13
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.
2 Samuel 3:29, 2 Samuel 3:29, Zechariah 8:4, Zechariah 8:4
20"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
Genesis 4:15, Exodus 21:26, Exodus 21:27, Isaiah 58:3, Isaiah 58:4
21Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.
Leviticus 25:44, Leviticus 25:46, Leviticus 25:44, Leviticus 25:46
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.
Deuteronomy 22:18, Deuteronomy 22:19, Deuteronomy 22:18, Deuteronomy 22:19, Exodus 21:30
23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
Deuteronomy 19:21, Deuteronomy 19:21, Numbers 35:31, Numbers 35:31, Leviticus 24:19
24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Deuteronomy 19:21, Deuteronomy 19:21, Matthew 5:38, Matthew 5:40, Matthew 7:2
25burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
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.
Nehemiah 5:5, Ephesians 6:9, Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Exodus 21:20
27If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28"If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
Exodus 21:32, Exodus 21:32, Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, Leviticus 20:15
29But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it 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.
Deuteronomy 21:1, Deuteronomy 21:9, Deuteronomy 21:1, Deuteronomy 21:9
30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.
Exodus 21:22, Exodus 21:22, Exodus 30:12, Numbers 35:31, Numbers 35:33
31Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
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.
Matthew 26:15, Matthew 26:15, Zechariah 11:12, Zechariah 11:13, Zechariah 11:12
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,
Proverbs 28:10, Psalms 119:85, Psalms 9:15, Ecclesiastes 10:8, Jeremiah 18:20
34the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
Exodus 22:14, Exodus 21:29, Exodus 21:30, Exodus 22:6, Exodus 22:14
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.
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.

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