Exodus 21:2
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2 (A)When you buy a Hebrew slave,[a] he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
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Exodus 21:3
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3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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Exodus 21:4
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4 If 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 alone.
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Exodus 21:5
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5 But (A)if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
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Exodus 21:6
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6 then his master shall bring him to (A)God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
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Exodus 21:7
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7 “When a man (A)sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
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Exodus 21:8
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8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her[a] for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.
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- Exodus 21:8 Or so that he has not designated her
Exodus 21:9
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9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
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Exodus 21:10
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10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or (A)her marital rights.
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Exodus 21:11
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11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
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Exodus 21:16
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16 (A)“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found (B)in possession of him, shall be put to death.
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Exodus 21:21
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21 But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the (A)slave is his money.
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Exodus 21:26
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26 “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.
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Exodus 21:27
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27 If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.
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Exodus 21:28
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28 “When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the (A)ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.
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Exodus 21:29
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29 But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
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Exodus 21:31
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31 If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.
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Exodus 21:32
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32 If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master (A)thirty shekels[a] of silver, and (B)the ox shall be stoned.
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- Exodus 21:32 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
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