Exodus 21 — Rahlfs Septuagint

1

ταῦτα τὰ δικαιώματα ἃ παραθήσεις ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν

And these are the ordinances that you shall set before them

2

κτήσῃ παῖδα Εβραῖον ἓξ ἔτη δουλεύσει σοι τῷ δὲ ἑβδόμῳ ἔτει ἀπελεύσεται ἐλεύθερος δωρεάν

If you acquire a Hebrew slave, six years he shall serve you, but in the seventh year he shall go out free, for nothing.

3

αὐτὸς μόνος εἰσέλθῃ καὶ μόνος ἐξελεύσεται ἐὰν δὲ γυνὴ συνεισέλθῃ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐξελεύσεται καὶ ἡ γυνὴ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ

If he enters alone, he shall go out alone; but if a wife enters with him, then the wife shall also go out with him.

4

And if the lord give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be the lord’s, and he himself shall go out alone.

5

δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἴπῃ ὁ παῖς ἠγάπηκα τὸν κύριόν μου καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τὰ παιδία οὐκ ἀποτρέχω ἐλεύθερος

But if the servant should answer and say, I have loved my lord and my wife and my children, I will not go away free.

6

Then his master shall bring him to the judgment of God, and then he shall bring him to the door, to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever

7

δέ τις ἀποδῶται τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρα οἰκέτιν οὐκ ἀπελεύσεται ὥσπερ ἀποτρέχουσιν αἱ δοῦλαι

And if anyone sells his own daughter as a maidservant, she shall not go out as the female slaves run away.

8

If she does not please her master, who had promised her to himself, he shall let her be redeemed; but he is not authorized to sell her to a foreign people, because he has dealt unfaithfully with her.

9

δὲ τῷ υἱῷ καθομολογήσηται αὐτήν κατὰ τὸ δικαίωμα τῶν θυγατέρων ποιήσει αὐτῇ

And if he designates her for his son, he shall do for her according to the ordinance of the daughters.

10

δὲ ἄλλην λάβῃ ἑαυτῷ τὰ δέοντα καὶ τὸν ἱματισμὸν καὶ τὴν ὁμιλίαν αὐτῆς οὐκ ἀποστερήσει

And if he takes another for himself, he shall not deprive her of her due, and her clothing, and her marital rights.

11

δὲ τὰ τρία ταῦτα μὴ ποιήσῃ αὐτῇ ἐξελεύσεται δωρεὰν ἄνευ ἀργυρίου

And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out free without money.

12

δὲ πατάξῃ τίς τινα καὶ ἀποθάνῃ θανάτῳ θανατούσθω

And if anyone strikes anyone and he dies, let him be put to death with death.

13

δὲ οὐχ ἑκών ἀλλὰ ὁ θεὸς παρέδωκεν εἰς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ δώσω σοι τόπον οὗ φεύξεται ἐκεῖ ὁ φονεύσας

But if he did not do it willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give you a place to which the manslayer shall flee there.

14

δέ τις ἐπιθῆται τῷ πλησίον ἀποκτεῖναι αὐτὸν δόλῳ καὶ καταφύγῃ ἀπὸ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου μου λήμψῃ αὐτὸν θανατῶσαι

But if anyone plots against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, and he flee from my altar, you shall take him to put him to death

15

τύπτει πατέρα αὐτοῦ ἢ μητέρα αὐτοῦ θανάτῳ θανατούσθω

Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

16

κακολογῶν πατέρα αὐτοῦ ἢ μητέρα αὐτοῦ τελευτήσει θανάτῳ

Whoever speaks evil of his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

17

ἐὰν κλέψῃ τίς τινα τῶν υἱῶν Ισραηλ καὶ καταδυναστεύσας αὐτὸν ἀποδῶται καὶ εὑρεθῇ ἐν αὐτῷ θανάτῳ τελευτάτω

Whoever steals any one of the sons of Israel and, having subdued him, sells him, and he is found in his possession, let him be put to death.

18

And if two men abuse one another and someone strikes his neighbor with a stone or with the fist, and he does not die but is laid upon the bed,

19

ἐξαναστὰς ὁ ἄνθρωπος περιπατήσῃ ἔξω ἐπὶ ῥάβδου ἀθῷος ἔσται ὁ πατάξας πλὴν τῆς ἀργίας αὐτοῦ ἀποτείσει καὶ τὰ ἰατρεῖα

if the man, having risen up, walks about outside on his staff, the one who struck him shall be guiltless; only he shall pay for his idleness and for his healing expenses

20

And if anyone strikes his male slave or his female slave with a rod, and he dies under his hands, let him surely be avenged.

21

δὲ διαβιώσῃ ἡμέραν μίαν ἢ δύο οὐκ ἐκδικηθήσεται τὸ γὰρ ἀργύριον αὐτοῦ ἐστιν

But if he survives a day or two, he shall not be avenged, for it is his money.

22

If two men should fight and strike a woman who is pregnant, and her child comes out not fully formed, he shall be fined with a penalty, according as the husband of the woman may impose, he shall give with valuation.

23

δὲ ἐξεικονισμένον ἦν δώσει ψυχὴν ἀντὶ ψυχῆς

But if it was formed, he shall give life for life.

24

ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ ὀδόντα ἀντὶ ὀδόντος χεῖρα ἀντὶ χειρός πόδα ἀντὶ ποδός

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot

25

ἀντὶ κατακαύματος τραῦμα ἀντὶ τραύματος μώλωπα ἀντὶ μώλωπος

burning for burning, wound for wound, bruise for bruise

26

And if anyone strikes the eye of his male servant or the eye of his female servant and blinds it, he shall send them out free in exchange for their eye.

27

δὲ τὸν ὀδόντα τοῦ οἰκέτου ἢ τὸν ὀδόντα τῆς θεραπαίνης αὐτοῦ ἐκκόψῃ ἐλευθέρους ἐξαποστελεῖ αὐτοὺς ἀντὶ τοῦ ὀδόντος αὐτῶν

And if he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or the tooth of his female servant, he shall send them out free in place of their tooth.

28

But if an ox gores a man or a woman and they die, the ox shall be stoned with stones, and its flesh shall not be eaten, and the owner of the ox shall be innocent.

29

But if the bull was wont to gore before yesterday and before the third day, and they warn his master, and he does not keep him under guard, and the bull kills a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his master shall also be put to death.

30

δὲ λύτρα ἐπιβληθῇ αὐτῷ δώσει λύτρα τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ ὅσα ἐὰν ἐπιβάλωσιν αὐτῷ

And if a ransom is imposed on him, he shall give the ransom for his life, whatever they may impose on him.

31

δὲ υἱὸν ἢ θυγατέρα κερατίσῃ κατὰ τὸ δικαίωμα τοῦτο ποιήσουσιν αὐτῷ

And if he horns a son or a daughter, according to this ordinance they shall do to him

32

δὲ παῖδα κερατίσῃ ὁ ταῦρος ἢ παιδίσκην ἀργυρίου τριάκοντα δίδραχμα δώσει τῷ κυρίῳ αὐτῶν καὶ ὁ ταῦρος λιθοβοληθήσεται

And if the ox gores a servant or a maidservant, he shall give thirty didrachmas of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

33

δέ τις ἀνοίξῃ λάκκον ἢ λατομήσῃ λάκκον καὶ μὴ καλύψῃ αὐτόν καὶ ἐμπέσῃ ἐκεῖ μόσχος ἢ ὄνος

And if anyone opens a pit or digs a pit and does not cover it, and a calf or an ass falls there

34

κύριος τοῦ λάκκου ἀποτείσει ἀργύριον δώσει τῷ κυρίῳ αὐτῶν τὸ δὲ τετελευτηκὸς αὐτῷ ἔσται

The owner of the pit shall repay; he shall give money to their owner, and the dead thing shall be his.

35

But if a man’s bull gores the bull of his neighbor and it dies, they shall give the live bull, and they shall divide its silver, and they shall divide the dead bull

36

But if the bull is known that it is a gorer formerly, both before yesterday and before the third day, and they have testified to its lord, and he does not remove it, he shall pay bull for bull, and the one that has died shall be his.

37

If however someone steals a calf or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five calves in return for the calf, and four sheep in return for the sheep.