{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "exodus", "chapter": 21 }, "data": { "n": 21, "bookSlug": "exodus", "bookCode": "EXO", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "EXO-21:1", "verseRef": "Exod.21.1", "text": "Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "EXO-21:2", "verseRef": "Exod.21.2", "text": "If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "EXO-21:3", "verseRef": "Exod.21.3", "text": "If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "EXO-21:4", "verseRef": "Exod.21.4", "text": "If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master`s, and he shall go out by himself." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "EXO-21:5", "verseRef": "Exod.21.5", "text": "But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "EXO-21:6", "verseRef": "Exod.21.6", "text": "then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "EXO-21:7", "verseRef": "Exod.21.7", "text": "And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "EXO-21:8", "verseRef": "Exod.21.8", "text": "If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "EXO-21:9", "verseRef": "Exod.21.9", "text": "And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "EXO-21:10", "verseRef": "Exod.21.10", "text": "If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "EXO-21:11", "verseRef": "Exod.21.11", "text": "And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "EXO-21:12", "verseRef": "Exod.21.12", "text": "He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "EXO-21:13", "verseRef": "Exod.21.13", "text": "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." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "EXO-21:14", "verseRef": "Exod.21.14", "text": "And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "EXO-21:15", "verseRef": "Exod.21.15", "text": "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "EXO-21:16", "verseRef": "Exod.21.16", "text": "And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "EXO-21:17", "verseRef": "Exod.21.17", "text": "And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "EXO-21:18", "verseRef": "Exod.21.18", "text": "And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "EXO-21:19", "verseRef": "Exod.21.19", "text": "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." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "EXO-21:20", "verseRef": "Exod.21.20", "text": "And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "EXO-21:21", "verseRef": "Exod.21.21", "text": "Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "EXO-21:22", "verseRef": "Exod.21.22", "text": "And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman`s husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "EXO-21:23", "verseRef": "Exod.21.23", "text": "But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life," },{ "n": 24, "refId": "EXO-21:24", "verseRef": "Exod.21.24", "text": "eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot," },{ "n": 25, "refId": "EXO-21:25", "verseRef": "Exod.21.25", "text": "burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "EXO-21:26", "verseRef": "Exod.21.26", "text": "And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye`s sake." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "EXO-21:27", "verseRef": "Exod.21.27", "text": "And if he smite out his man-servant`s tooth, or his maid-servant`s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth`s sake." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "EXO-21:28", "verseRef": "Exod.21.28", "text": "And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "EXO-21:29", "verseRef": "Exod.21.29", "text": "But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "EXO-21:30", "verseRef": "Exod.21.30", "text": "If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "EXO-21:31", "verseRef": "Exod.21.31", "text": "Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "EXO-21:32", "verseRef": "Exod.21.32", "text": "If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "EXO-21:33", "verseRef": "Exod.21.33", "text": "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," },{ "n": 34, "refId": "EXO-21:34", "verseRef": "Exod.21.34", "text": "the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead [beast] shall be his." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "EXO-21:35", "verseRef": "Exod.21.35", "text": "And if one man`s ox hurt another`s, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it: and the dead also they shall divide." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "EXO-21:36", "verseRef": "Exod.21.36", "text": "Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] shall be his own." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/exodus/chapters/21", "book": "/v1/library/books/exodus/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/exodus/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }