Exodus 21

Laws concerning servants. They shall serve for only seven years, Exodus 21:1 , Exodus 21:2 . If a servant brought a wife to servitude with him, both should go out free on the seventh year, Exodus 21:3 . If his master had given him a wife, and she bore him children, he might go out free an the seventh year, but his wife and children must remain, as the property of the master, Exodus 21:4 . If, through love to his master, wife, and children, he did not choose to avail himself of the privilege granted by the law, of going out free on the seventh year, his ear was to be bored to the door post with an awl, as an emblem of his being attached to the family for ever, Exodus 21:5 , Exodus 21:6 . Laws concerning maid-servants, betrothed to their masters or to the sons of their masters, Exodus 21:7-11 . Laws concerning battery and murder, Exodus 21:12-15 . Concerning men-stealing, Exodus 21:16 . Concerning him that curses his parents, Exodus 21:17 . Of strife between man and man, Exodus 21:18 , Exodus 21:19 ; between a master and his servants, Exodus 21:20 , Exodus 21:21 . Of injuries done to women in pregnancy, Exodus 21:22 . The Lex Talionis , or law of like, Exodus 21:23-25 . Of injuries done to servants, by which they gain the right of freedom, Exodus 21:26 , Exodus 21:27 . Laws concerning the ox which has gored men, Exodus 21:28-32 . Of the pit left uncovered, into which a man or a beast has fallen, Exodus 21:33 , Exodus 21:34 . Laws concerning the ox that kills another, Exodus 21:35 , Exodus 21:36 .