Exodus 21

1 “These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

1 “你要向百姓颁布下列法令。

2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

2 你若买一个希伯来人当奴仆，他必须服侍你六年，到第七年便可以获得自由，不用支付任何赎金。

3 If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.

3 他来的时候若是单身，就可以单身离开。他来的时候若有妻子，就可以带妻子一起离开。

4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

4 倘若主人给他娶了妻，妻子生了儿女，那么期满的时候，他只能单独离开，他的妻儿要归主人。

5 But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’

5 倘若奴仆说，‘我爱我的主人和我的妻子儿女，我不愿意离去做自由人。’

6 then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.

6 主人就要带他到审判官面前，让他靠着门或门框，用锥子为他穿耳洞。这样，他就要永远服侍主人。

7 And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.

7 倘若有人把女儿卖为婢女，她不可像男仆那样离开。

8 If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.

8 倘若买她的主人本想把她留给自己，后来却不喜欢她，就必须让她赎身。主人无权把她转卖给外族人，因为是主人对她不守信用。

9 And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter.

9 倘若是买来给自己的儿子，就要把她当作自己的女儿一般看待。

10 If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.

10 倘若有人娶了婢女为妻，后来又另娶，他还是要照常供给她饭食和衣服，并履行同房的义务。

11 If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.

11 倘若主人不履行以上的三个条件，婢女就可以随时离开，不用缴付任何赎金。

12 Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

12 “打人致死的，必须被处死。

13 If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

13 倘若不是故意杀人，而是上帝许可那人死在他手里，他就可以逃往我指定的地方。

14 But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.

14 倘若是蓄意杀人，就算他逃到我的祭坛那里，也要把他拉出来处死。

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

15 殴打父母的，必须被处死。

16 Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.

16 绑架他人贩卖或自用的，必须被处死。

17 Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

17 咒骂父母的，必须被处死。

18 If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

18 倘若吵架时一方用拳头或石块致另一方受伤、躺卧在床，但不至于死，

19 then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.

19 日后能起床扶着拐杖到户外走，伤人者便不算有罪，但要赔偿受伤者停工期间的损失，并要负责治好他。

20 If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.

20 “倘若有人用棍子打他的仆婢，导致仆婢当场死亡，他必须受惩罚。

21 However, if the servant gets up after a day or two, the owner shall not be punished, since the servant is his property.

21 倘若伤者过了一两天才死去，主人就可免刑，因为死者是他的财产。

22 If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.

22 倘若有人彼此斗殴，伤了孕妇，导致早产，但未造成其他伤害，伤人者要按她丈夫所要求的金额，经审判官判定以后，如数赔偿。

23 But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—

23 倘若还有其他伤害，伤人者就要以命偿命，

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

24 以眼还眼，以牙还牙，以手还手，以脚还脚，

25 burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.

25 以烧伤还烧伤，以创伤还创伤，以殴打还殴打。

26 If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

26 “主人若打坏仆婢的一只眼睛，就要因此让仆婢自由离去。

27 And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

27 同样，倘若他打掉了仆婢的一颗牙齿，也要因此而释放仆婢。

28 If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible.

28 “倘若有牛抵死了人，要用石头打死那头牛，并且不可吃它的肉，牛的主人可算无罪。

29 But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

29 但倘若牛常常用角抵人，并且已经有人向牛的主人投诉，他却不拴好牛，以致牛抵死了人，就要用石块打死牛，并处死主人。

30 If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.

30 若判他以钱赎命，不论金额多少，他都得照付。

31 If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.

31 牛若抵死了别人的儿女，也要照以上的条例办理。

32 If the ox gores a manservant or maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.

32 牛若抵死了别人的仆婢，牛的主人要赔七两银子 给那仆婢的主人，并要用石头打死牛。

33 If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

33 倘若有人打开井盖或挖了井后不把井口盖好，以致有牛或驴掉进井里，

34 the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

34 井的主人就要赔偿牲畜的主人，死牲畜则归井的主人。

35 If a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live one and divide the proceeds; they also must divide the dead animal.

35 倘若某人的牛抵死了别人的牛，两家的主人就要卖掉活牛，平分所得，同时也要平分那头死掉的牛。

36 But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.

36 倘若素知牛好抵，主人却没有拴好它，他就要以牛还牛，死牛则归他。