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The 14th Chapter
Then the Lord
spake unto Moses saying: bid the children of Israel that they turn
and pitch their tents before the entering of Hiroth between Migdol
and the sea toward Baal Zephon: even before that shall ye pitch upon
the sea. For Pharao will say of the children of Israel: they are
tangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. And I will
harden his heart, that he shall follow after them, that I may get me
honor upon Pharao and upon all his host, that the Egyptians may know
that I am the Lord. And they did even so.
And when it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled,
then Pharaos heart and all his servants turned unto the people and
said: why have we this done, that we have let Israel go out of our
service? and he made ready his chariots and took his people with him
and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt
and captains upon all his people. For the Lord hardened the heart of
Pharao king of Egypt, that he followed after the children of Israel
which for all that went out through an high hand. And the Egyptians
followed after them and overtook them where they pitched by the sea,
with all the horses and chariots of Pharao and with his horsemen and
his host: even fast by the entering of Hiroth before Baal Zephon.
And Pharao drew nigh, and when the children of Israel lifted up
their eyes and saw how the Egyptians followed after them, they were
sore afraid and cried out unto the Lord.
Then said they unto Moses: were there no graves for us in
Egypt, but thou must bring us away for to die in the wilderness?
wherefore hast thou served us thus, for to carry us out of Egypt?
Did we not tell thee this in Egypt saying, let us be in rest and
serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to have served
the Egyptians, than for to die in the wilderness. And Moses said
unto the people: fear ye not but stand still and behold how the Lord
shall save you this day: For as ye see the Egyptians this day, shall
ye see them no more for ever till the worlds end. The Lord shall
fight for you and ye shall hold your peace.
The Lord said unto Moses: wherefore criest thou unto me? speak
unto the children of Israel that they go forward. But lift thou up
thy rod and stretch out thy hand over the sea and divide it asunder,
that the children of Israel may go on dry ground through the midst
thereof. And behold I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians that
they may follow you. And I will get me honor upon Pharao and upon
all his host, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen. And the
Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I have gotten me honor
upon Pharao, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.
And the angel of God which went before the host of Israel,
removed and went behind them. And the clouded pillar that was before
them removed and stood behind them and went between the host of the
Egyptians and the host of Israel. It was a dark cloud, and gave
light by night: so that all the night long the one could not come at
the other.
When now Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord
carried away the sea with a strong east wind that blew all night,
and made the sea dry land and the water divided itself. And the
children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea upon the dry
ground. And the water was a wall unto them, both on their right hand
and on their left hand. And the Egyptians followed and went in after
them to the midst of the sea, with all Pharaos horses, and his
chariots and his horsemen. And in the morning watch, the Lord looked
unto the host of the Egyptians out of the fiery and cloudy pillar,
and troubled their host and smote off their chariot wheels and cast
them down to the ground. Then said the Egyptians: Let us flee from
Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against us. Then said the
Lord unto Moses: stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the water
may come again upon the Egyptians upon their chariots and horsemen.
Then stretched forth Moses his hand over the sea, and it came
again to his course early in the morning, and the Egyptians fled
against it. Thus the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of
the sea, and the water returned and covered the chariots and the
horsemen: so that of all the host of Pharao that came into the sea
after them, there remained not one. But the children of Israel went
upon dry land in the midst of the sea, and the water was a wall unto
them: both on the right hand of them and also on the left.
Thus the Lord delivered Israel the self same day out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the
sea side. And when Israel saw that mighty hand which the Lord had
shewed upon the Egyptians, they feared the Lord: and believed both
the Lord and also his servant Moses.
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The 15th Chapter
Then Moses and
the children of Israel sang this song unto the Lord and said: Let us
sing unto the Lord, for he is become glorious, the horse and him
that rode upon him hath he overthrown in the sea. The Lord is my
strength and my song, and is become my salvation. He is my God and I
will glorify him, he is my fathers God and I will lift him up on
high. The Lord is a man of war, Jehovah is his name: Pharaos
chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea. His jolly captains
are drowned in the redd sea, the deep waters have covered them: they
sunk to the bottom as a stone. Thine hand Lord is glorious in power,
thine hand Lord hath all to dashed the enemy. And with thy great
glory thou hast destroyed thine adversaries, thou sentest forth thy
wrath and it consumed them, even as stubble. With the breath of
thine anger the water gathered together and the floods stood still
as a rock, and the deep water congealed together in the midst of the
sea.
The enemy said: I will follow and overtake them, and will
divide the spoil: I will satisfy my lust upon them: I will draw my
sword, and mine hand shall destroy them.
Thou blewest with thy breath and the sea covered them, and
they sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like unto thee O Lord
among gods: who is like thee, so glorious in holiness, fearful,
laudable and that showest wonders? Thou stretchedest out thy right
hand, and in the earth swallowed them. And thou carriedest with thy
mercy this people which thou deliveredest, and broughtest them with
thy strength unto thy holy habitation. The nations heard, and were
afraid, pangs came upon the Philistines. Then the dukes of the
Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest of the
Moabites, and all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faint hearted. Let
fear and dread fall upon them through the greatness of thine arm,
and let them be as still as a stone: while thy people pass through O
Lord, while the people pass through, which thou hast gotten. Bring
them in, and plant them in the mountains of thine inheritance, the
place Lord which thou hast made for to dwell in, the sanctuary Lord,
which thy hands have prepared. The Lord reign ever and all way. For
Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the
sea, and the Lord brought the waters of the sea upon them. And the
children of Israel went on dry land through the midst of the sea.
And MirJam a prophetess the sister of Aaron took a timbrel in her
hand, and all the women came out after her with timbrels in a dance.
And MirJam sang before them: sing ye unto the Lord, for he is become
glorious indeed: the horse and his rider hath he overthrown in the
sea. Moses brought Israel from the redd sea, and they went out into
the wilderness of Sur. And they went three days long in the
wilderness, and could find no water. At the last they came to Mara:
but they could not drink of the waters for bitterness, for they were
bitter. Therefore the name of the place was called Mara. Then the
people murmured against Moses, saying: what shall we drink? And
Moses cried unto the Lord, and he showed him a tree: and he cast it
into the waters, and they waxed sweet.
There he made them an ordinance and a law, and there he
tempted them and said: If ye will hearken unto the voice of the Lord
your God, and will do that which is right in his sight and will give
an ear unto his commandments, and keep all his ordinances: then will
I put none of these diseases upon thee which I brought upon the
Egyptians, for I am the Lord thy surgeon.
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The 16th Chapter
And they came to Elim where were
twelve wells of water and seventy date trees, and they pitched there
by the water. And they took their journey from Elim, and all the
whole company of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of
Sin, which lieth between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the
second month after that they were come out of the land of Egypt. And
the whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and Aaron in the wilderness, and said unto them: would to God we had
died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by
the flesh pots, and ate bread our bellies full, for ye have brought
us out into this wilderness to kill this whole multitude for hunger.
Then said the Lord unto Moses: behold, I will rain bread from
heaven down to you, and let the people go out, and gather day by
day, that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no.
The sixth day let them prepare that which they will bring in, and
let it be twice as much as they gather in daily. And Moses and Aaron
said unto all the children of Israel: at even ye shall know that it
is the Lord, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the
morning ye shall see the glory of the Lord: because he hath heard
your grudgings against the Lord: for what are we that ye should
murmur against us? And moreover spake Moses: At evening the Lord
will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread enough, because
the Lord hath heard your murmur which ye murmur against him: for
what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.
And Moses spake unto Aaron: Say unto all the company of the
children of Israel, come forth before the Lord: for he hath heard
your grudgings. And as Aaron spake unto the whole multitude of the
children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness: and behold,
the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud. And the Lord spake unto
Moses saying: I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel,
tell them therefore and say that at evening they shall eat flesh,
and in the morning they shall be filled with bread, and ye shall
know that I am the Lord your God. And at evening the quails came and
covered the ground where they lay. And in the morning the dew lay
round about the host. And when the dew was fallen: behold, it lay
upon the ground in the wilderness, small and round and thin as the
hoarfrost on the ground. When the children of Israel saw it, they
said one to another: what is this? for they knew not what is was.
And Moses said: this is the bread which the Lord hath given you to
eat. This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, that ye gather
every man enough for him to eat: a *gomer full for a man according
to the number of you, and gather every man for them which are in his
tent.
And the children of Israel did even so, and gathered some more
some less, and did *mete it with a gomer. And unto him that had
gathered much remained nothing over, and unto him that had gathered
little was there no lack: but every man had gathered sufficient for
his eating. And Moses said unto them: See that no man let *ought
remain of it until the morning. Notwithstanding they hearkened not
unto Moses: but some of them left of it until the morning, and it
waxed full of worms and stank, and Moses was angry with them.
And they gathered it all mornings: every man as much as
sufficed for his eating, for as soon as the heat of the *sonne came
it melted. And the sixth day they gathered twice so much bread, two
gomers for one man: and the rulers of the multitude came and told
Moses. And he said unto them: this is that which the Lord hath said:
tomorrow is the Sabbath of the holy rest of the Lord: bake that
which ye will bake and fetch that ye will fetch, and that which
remaineth lay up for you, and keep it till the morning. And they
laid it up till the morning as Moses bade, and it stank not, neither
was there any worms therein. And Moses said: that eat this day: for
today it is the Lords Sabbath: today ye shall find none in the
field. Six days ye shall gather it, for the seventh is the Sabbath:
there shall be none therein.
Notwithstanding there went out of the people in the seventh
day for to gather: but they found none. Then the Lord said unto
Moses: how long shall it be, *ere ye will keep my commandments and
laws? See because the Lord hath given you a Sabbath, therefore he
giveth you the sixth day bread for two days. Bide therefore every
man at home, and let no man go out of his place the seventh day. And
the people rested the seventh day. And the house of Israel called it
Man. And it was like unto wafers made with honey.
And Moses said: this is that which the Lord commandeth: fill a
gomer of it, that it may be kept for your children after you: that
they may see the bread wherewith he fed you in wilderness, when he
had brought you out of the land of Egypt. And Moses spake unto
Aaron: take a cruse and put a gomer full of Man therein, and lay it
up before the Lord to be kept for your children after you, as the
Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron laid it up before the testimony
there to be kept. And the children of Israel ate man forty years
until they came unto a land inhabited. And so they ate Man, even
until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan, and a gomer
is the tenth part of an Epha.
*gomer; about
2qts *mete (measure) *ought (nothing) *sonne (exact spelling,
sun is found in this text as sunne) *ere (until, before)
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The 17th Chapter
And all the company of the
children of Israel went on their journeys from the wilderness of Sin
at the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Raphidim: where was
no water for the people to drink. And the people *chode with Moses
and said: give us water to drink. And Moses said unto them: why
chide ye with me, and wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? There the
people thirsted for water, and murmured against Moses and said:
wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our
children and our cattle with thirst?
And Moses cried unto the Lord saying, what shall I do unto
this people? They be almost ready to stone me. And the Lord said
unto Moses: go before the people, and take with thee of the elders
of Israel: and thy rod wherewith thou smotest the river, take in
thine hand and go. Behold, I will stand there before thee upon a
rock in Horeb: and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come
water out thereof, that the people may drink.
And Moses did even so before the elders of Israel. And he
called the name of the place: Massa and Meriba: because of the
chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord
saying: is the Lord among us or not?
Then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Raphidim. And Moses
said unto Josua: choose out men and go fight with Amelech. Tomorrow
I will stand on the top of the hill and the rod of God in mine hand.
And Josua did as Moses bade him, and fought with the Amalekites. And
Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And when Moses
held up his hand, Israel had the better. And when he let his hand
down, Amelech had the better. When Moses hands were weary, they took
a stone and put it under him, and he sat down there on. And Aaron
and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side and the other
on the other side. And his hands were steady until the *son was
down. And Josua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of
his sword.
And the Lord said unto Moses, write this for a remembrance in
a book and tell it unto Josua, for I will put out the remembrance of
Amalek from under heaven. And Moses made an altar and called the
name of it Jehovah Nissi, for he said: the hand is on the seat of
the Lord, that the Lord will have war with Amalek throughout all
generations.
*chode
(argued/disapproving) *sonne (exact spelling, sun is found in
this text as sunne)
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The 18th Chapter
Jethro the
priest of Madian Moses father in law heard of all that God had done
unto Moses and to Israel his people, how that the Lord had brought
Israel out of Egypt. And he took Zippora Moses wife, after she was
sent back, and her two sons, of which the one was called Gerson, for
he said: I have been alien in a strange land. And the other was
called Eliesar: for the God of my father was mine help and delivered
me from the sword of Pharao. And Jethro Moses father in law came
with his two sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness: where
he had pitched his tent by the mount of God. And he sent word to
Moses: I thy father in law Jethro am come to thee, and thy wife
also, and her two sons with her. And Moses went out to meet his
father in law and did obeisance and kissed him, and they saluted
each other and came into the tent. And Moses told his father in law
all that the Lord had done unto Pharao and to the Egyptians for
Israels sake, and all the travail that had happened them by the way,
and how the Lord had delivered them. And Jethro rejoiced over all
the good which the Lord had done to Israel, and because he had
delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Jethro said:
blessed be the Lord which hath delivered you out of the hand of the
Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharao, which hath delivered his
people from under the power of the Egyptians. Now I know that the
Lord is greater than all gods, for because that they dealt proudly
with them. And Jethro Moses father in law offered burnt offerings
and sacrifices unto God. And Aaron and all the elders of Israel came
to eat bread with Moses father in law before God.
And it chanced on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the
people, and the people stood about Moses from morning unto evening.
When his father in law saw all that he did unto the people, he said:
what is this that thou doest unto the people? why sittest thou
thyself and lettest all the people stand about thee from morning
unto even? And Moses said unto his father in law: because the people
came unto me to seek counsel of God. For when they have a matter,
they come unto me, and I must judge between every man and his
neighbor, and must show them the ordinances of God and his laws.
And his father in law said unto him: it is not well that thou
doest. Thou doest unwisely and also this people that is with thee:
because the thing is too grievous for thee, and thou art not able to
do it thy self alone. But hear my voice, and I will give thee
counsel, and God shall be with thee. Be thou unto the people to
Godward, and bring the causes unto God and provide them ordinances
and laws, and shew them the way wherein they must walk and the works
that they must do. Moreover seek out among all the people, men of
activity which fear God, and men that are true and hate
covetousness: and make them heads over the people, captains over
thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten. And let them
judge the people at all seasons: If there be any great matter, let
them bring that unto thee, and let them judge all small causes
themselves, and ease thy self, and let them bear with thee. If thou
shalt do this thing, then thou shalt be able to endure that which
God chargeth thee with all, and all this people shall go to their
places quietly.
And Moses heard the voice of his father in law, and did all
that he had said, and chose active men out of all Israel and made
them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds,
over fifty and over ten. And they judged the people at all seasons,
and brought the hard causes unto Moses: and judged all small matters
themselves. And then Moses let his father in law depart, and he went
in to his own land.
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The 19th Chapter
The third month
after the children of Israel were gone out of Egypt: the same day
they came into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from
Raphidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai and had pitched their
tents in the wilderness. And there Israel pitched before the mount.
And Moses went up unto God. And the Lord called to him out of the
mountain saying: thus say unto the house of Jacob, and tell the
children of Israel: Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and
how I took you up upon eagles wings, and have brought you unto
myself. Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine
appointment: ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the
earth is mine. Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and an holy
people: these are the words which thou shalt say unto the children
of Israel.
And Moses came and called for the elders of Israel, and laid
before them all these words which the Lord had commanded him. And
the people answered all together and said: All that the Lord hath
said, we will do. And Moses brought the words of the people unto the
Lord. And the Lord said unto Moses: Lo, I will come unto thee in a
thick cloud, that the people may hear when I talk with thee, and
also believe thee for ever. And Moses showed the words of the people
unto the Lord.
And the Lord said unto Moses: Go unto the people and sanctify
them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes: that they
may be ready against the third day. For the third day will the Lord
come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. And set
marks round about the people and say: beware that ye go not up into
the mount, and that ye touch not the borders of it, for whosoever
toucheth the mount, shall surely die. There shall not an hand touch
it, but that he shall either be stoned or else shot through: whether
it be beast or man, it shall not live, when the horn bloweth: then
let them come up in to the mountain.
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people and
sanctified them, and they washed their clothes: And he said unto the
people: be ready against the third day, and see that ye come not at
your wives. And the third day in the morning there was thunder, and
lighting and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn
waxed exceeding loud, and all the people that was in the host was
afraid. And Moses brought the people out of the tents to meet with
God, and they stood under the hill.
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the Lord
descended down upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up,
as it had been the smoke of a kiln, and all the mount was exceeding
fearful. And the voice of the horn blew and waxed louder, and
louder. Moses spake, and God answered him and that with a voice. And
the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, even in the top of the hill,
and called Moses up into the top of the hill. And Moses went up.
And the Lord said unto Moses: go down and charge the people
that they press not up unto the Lord for to see him, and so many of
them perish. And let the priests also which come to the Lords
presence, sanctify themselves: lest the Lord smite them. Then Moses
said unto the Lord: the people cannot come up in to mount Sinai, for
thou chargedest us saying: set marks about the hill and sanctify it.
And the Lord said unto him: away, and get thee down: and come up
both thou and Aaron with thee. But let not the Priests and the
people presume for to come up unto the Lord: lest he smite them. And
Moses went down unto the people and told them.
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The 20th Chapter
And God spake all these words
and said: I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the
land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none
other gods in my sight. Thou shalt make thee no graven image,
neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth
beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth. See that thou
neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I the Lord thy
God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
and yet show mercy unto thousands among them that love me and keep
my commandments.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for
the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it. Six days mayst thou
labor and do all that thou hast to do: but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt do no manner work:
neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, neither thy manservant
nor thy maidservant, neither thy cattle neither yet the stranger
that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made both heaven
and earth and the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh
day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the
land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not break wedlock.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt bear no false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors house: neither shalt covet
thy neighbors wife, his manservant, his maid, his ox, his ass or
*ought that is his.
And all the people saw the thunder and the lightning and the
noise of the horn, and how the mountain smoked. And when the people
saw it, they removed and stood afar off and said unto Moses: talk
thou with us and we will hear, but let not God talk with us, lest we
die. And Moses said unto the people fear not, for God is come to
prove you, and that his fear may be among you that ye sin not.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the thick
cloud where God was. And the Lord said unto Moses: thus thou shalt
say unto the children of Israel: Ye have seen how that I have talked
with you from out of heaven. Ye shall not make therefore with me
gods of silver nor gods of gold: in no wise shall ye do it. An altar
of earth thou shalt make unto me and thereon offer thy burnt
offerings and thy peace offerings, and thy sheep and thine oxen. And
in all places where I shall put the remembrance of my name, thither
I will come unto thee and bless thee. But and if thou wilt make me
an altar of stone, see thou make it not of hewed stone, for if thou
lift up thy tool upon it, thou shalt pollute it. Moreover thou shalt
not go up with steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not
shewed thereon.
*ought (anything)
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The 21st Chapter
These are the laws which thou
shalt set before thee. If thou buy a servant that is an Hebrew, six
years he shall serve, and the seventh he shall go out free paying
nothing. If he came alone, he shall go out alone: If he came
married, his wife shall go out with him. And if his master have
given him a wife and she have borne him sons or daughters: then the
wife and her children shall be her masters and he shall go out
alone. But and if the servant say I love my master and my wife and
my children, I will not go out free. Then let his master bring him
unto the *gods and set him to the door or the doorpost, and bore his
ear through with an nail, and let him be his servant forever.
If a man sell his daughter to be a servant: she shall not go
out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, so that he
hath given her to no man to wife, then shall he let her go free: to
sell her unto a strange nation shall he have no power, because he
despised her. If he have promised her unto his son to wife, he shall
deal with her as men do with their daughters. If he take him another
wife, yet her food, raiment and duty of marriage shall he not minish.
If he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free and
pay no money. He that smiteth a man that he die, shall be slain for
it. If a man lay not await but God deliver him into his hand, then I
will point thee a place whither he shall flee. If a man come
presumptuously upon his neighbor and slay him with guile, thou shalt
take him from mine altar that he die. And he that smiteth his father
or his mother, shall die for it.
He that stealeth a man and selleth him (if it be proved upon
him) shall be slain for it. And he that curseth his father or
mother, shall be put to death for it. If men strive together and one
smite another with a stone or with his fist, so that he die not, but
lieth in bed: if he rise again and walk without upon his staff, then
shall he that smote him go quit: save only he shall bear his charges
while he lay in bed and pay for his healing.
If a man smite his servant or his maid with a staff that they
die under his hand, it shall be avenged. But and if they continue a
day or two, it shall not be avenged for they are his money. When men
strive and smite a woman with child so that her fruit depart from
her and yet no misfortune followeth: then shall he be *merced,
according as the womans husband will lay to his charge, and he shall
pay as the daysmen appoint him. But and if any misfortune follow,
then shall he pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound and
stripe for stripe.
If a man smite his servant or his maid in the eye and put it
out, he shall let them go free for the eyes sake. Also if he smite
out his servants or his maids tooth, he shall let them go out free
for the tooths sake. If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die,
then the ox shall be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten: and
his master shall go quit.
If the ox were want to run at men in time past and it hath
been told his master, and he hath not kept him, but that he hath
killed a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned and his master
shall die also. If he be set to a sum of money, then he shall give
for the deliverance of his life, according to all that is put unto
him. And whether he hath gored a son or a daughter, he shall be
served after the same manner. But if it be a servant or a maid that
the ox hath gored, then he shall give unto their master the sum of
thirty sickles, and the ox shall be stoned.
If a man open a well or dig a pit and cover it not, but that
an ox or an ass fall therein, the owner of the pit shall make it
good and give money unto their master, and the dead beast shall be
his.
If one mans ox hurt anothers that he die: then they shall sell
the live ox and divide the money, and the dead ox also they shall
divide. But and if it be known that the ox hath used to push in
times past, then because his master hath not kept him, he shall pay
ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.
*gods; MN marginal note:
Godly judges and princes who settled matters according to Godly law.
*merced (merchandised or mercies),
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