你在百姓面前所要立的典章是这样,
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
你若买希伯来人作奴仆,他必服事你六年,第七年他可以自由,白白地出去。
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
他若孤身来,就可以孤身去,他若有妻,他的妻就可以同他出去。
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
倘或奴仆明说,我爱我的主人和我的妻子儿女,不愿意自由出去。
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
他的主人就要带他到审判官那里(审判官或作神下同),又要带他到门前,靠近门框,用锥子穿他的耳朵,他就永远服事主人。
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
主人选定她归自己,若不喜欢她,就要许她赎身,主人既然用诡诈待她,就没有权柄卖给外邦人。
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
主人若选定她给自己的儿子,就当待她如同女儿。
And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
人若用棍子打奴仆或婢女,立时死在他的手下,他必要受刑。
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
若过一两天才死,就可以不受刑,因为是用钱买的。
Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
人若彼此争斗,伤害有孕的妇人,甚至坠胎,随后却无别害,那伤害她的,总要按妇人的丈夫所要的,照审判官所断的,受罚。
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.