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
quite: 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 woman's 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 eye's sake. Also if he smite
out his servant's or his maid's tooth, he shall let them go out free
for the tooth's 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 quite. If the ox were wont 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
sicles, 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 man's ox hurt another's 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 time's past, then because his master hath not kept him, he
shall pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.
Chapter .xxij.
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