^21:1"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

^21:2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. ^21:3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. ^21:4If 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 by himself. ^21:5But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;' ^21:6then his master shall bring him to G-d, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

^21:7"If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. ^21:8If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her. ^21:9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ^21:10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. ^21:11If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

^21:12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, ^21:13but not if it is unintentional, but G-d allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. ^21:14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

^21:15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

^21:16"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

^21:17"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

^21:18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed; ^21:19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

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Sheni [2nd]

^21:20"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. ^21:21Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

^21:22"If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow. ^21:23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, ^21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ^21:25burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

^21:26"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. ^21:27If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

^21:28"If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. ^21:29But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death. ^21:30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him. ^21:31Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. ^21:32If the bull gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

^21:33"If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, ^21:34the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

^21:35"If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal. ^21:36Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

^22:1(21:37 $¹nt)"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

^22:2(1 $¹nt)If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. ^22:3(2)If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. ^22:4(3)If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

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Shlishi [3rd]

^{22:5(4 $¹nt)}"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

^{22:6(5 $¹nt)}"If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

^{22:7(6 $¹nt)}"If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double. ^22:8(7)If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to G-d, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods. ^22:9(8)For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before G-d. He whom G-d condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

^{22:10(9 $¹nt)}"If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; ^22:11(10)the oath of the LORD shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. ^22:12(11)But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it. ^22:13(12)If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

^{22:14(13 $¹nt)}"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. ^22:15(14)If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

^{22:16(15 $¹nt)}"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. ^22:17(16)If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

^{22:18(17 $¹nt)}"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

^{22:19(18 $¹nt)}"Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

^{22:20(19 $¹nt)}"He who sacrifices to any G-d, except to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.

^{22:21(20 $¹nt)}"You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

^{22:22(21 $¹nt)}"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. ^22:23(22)If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; ^22:24(23)and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

^{22:25(24 $¹nt)}"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest. ^22:26(25)If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, ^22:27(26)for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

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R'vi'i [4th]

^{22:28(27 $¹nt)}"You shall not blaspheme G-d, nor curse a ruler of your people.

^{22:29(28 $¹nt)}"You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.

"You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me. ^22:30(29)You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it me.

^{22:31(30 $¹nt)}"You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

^23:1"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. ^23:2You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; ^23:3neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

^23:4"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. ^23:5If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

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Chamishi [5th]

^23:6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

^23:7"Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

^23:8You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

^23:9"You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

^23:10"For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, ^23:11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

^23:12"Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

^23:13"Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.

^23:14"You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. ^23:15You shall observe the feast of matzah. Seven days you shall eat matzah, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Aviv (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. ^23:16And the Chag-HaKatzir, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the Chag-HaKatzir, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field. ^23:17Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord G-d.

^23:18"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning. ^23:19The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your G-d.

"You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk."

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Shishi [6th]

^23:20"Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ^23:21Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. ^23:22But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. ^23:23For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amori, the Chittite, the Perizzi, the Kana`ani, the Chivvi, and the Yevusi; and I will cut them off. ^23:24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. ^23:25You shall serve the LORD your G-d, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst."

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Shvi'i [7th]

^23:26No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days. ^23:27I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ^23:28I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Chivvi, the Kana`ani, and the Chittite, from before you. ^23:29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. ^23:30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. ^23:31I will set your border from the Sea of Suf even to the sea of the Pelishtim, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. ^23:32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ^23:33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

^24:1He said to Moshe, "Come up to the LORD, you, and Aharon, Nadav, and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra'el; and worship from a distance. ^24:2Moshe alone shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."

^24:3Moshe came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which the LORD has spoken will we do."

^24:4Moshe wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Yisra'el. ^24:5He sent young men of the children of Yisra'el, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to the LORD. ^24:6Moshe took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ^24:7He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that the LORD has spoken will we do, and be obedient."

^24:8Moshe took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words."

^24:9Then Moshe, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra'el went up. ^24:10They saw the G-d of Yisra'el. Under his feet was like a paved work of sappir stone, like the skies for clearness. ^24:11He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Yisra'el. They saw G-d, and ate and drank.

^24:12The LORD said to Moshe, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

^24:13Moshe rose up with Yehoshua, his servant, and Moshe went up onto G-d's Mountain. ^24:14He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aharon and Chur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."

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Maftir [Concluding]

^24:15Moshe went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. ^24:16The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moshe out of the midst of the cloud. ^24:17The appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Yisra'el. ^24:18Moshe entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moshe was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

 'This people honors me with their lips,
      But their heart is far from me.