And if his master have given him a wife and she have borne
him sons or daughters: then the wife and her children shall be her
master's and he shall go out alone. But and if the servant say I
love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go out
free. Then let his master bring him unto the Gods and set him to
the door or the doorpost, and bore his ear thorow with an nawl,
and let him be his servant forever. If a man sell his daughter to
be a servant: she shall not go out as the menservants do. If she
please not her master, so that he hath given her to no man to
wife, then shall he let her go free: to sell her unto a strange
nation shall he have no power, because he despised her. If he have
promised her unto his son to wife, he shall deal with her as men
do with their daughters. If he take him another wife, yet her
food, raiment and duty of marriage shall he not minish. If he do
not these three unto her, then shall she go out free and pay no
money. He that smiteth a man that he die, shall be slain for it.
If a man lay not await but God deliver him into his hand, then I
will point thee a place whither he shall flee. If a man come
presumptuously upon his neighbour and slay him with guile, thou
shalt take him from mine altar that he die.
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