CHAPTER I.

EXODUS, XX.

THE TEN WORDS.

First Table-Duty toward God-Second Table-Duty toward Neighbor.

I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen.

(First Table.)

I.-Thou shalt have none other gods beside Me.
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee an image.
III.-Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God
in vain.

IV. Remember the day of rest, to keep it holy.
V. Honor thy father and thy mother.

(Second Table.)

VI. Thou shalt do no murder.

VII.-Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII.-Thou shalt not steal.

IX.-Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy

neighbor.

X.-Thou shalt not covet.

CHAPTER II.

EXODUS, xx.-xxiii.

THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.

(Portions of a general civil and religious code.)

Place of Worship-Hebrew Bondmen-Hebrew Bondwomen-Capital Offences--Injury to the Person-Distinction of Bond and Free-Jus Talionis-Not Applied to Slaves-Injury by Animals -Injury to Property--Injury to Cattle-By Cattle-Theft-Injury to Field—Trust and Loan-Trust of Money or Stuff—Trust of Cattle-Injury to Loaned or Hired-Woman as Property-Miscellaneous Provisions-Sorcery-False Gods-Strangers-Usury— Firstlings and Firstborn-Administration of Justice-Duties of Witness-Duties of Judge-Kindliness-Sabbath Year-Sabbath Day-Three Feasts-Sacrificial Rules.

One God.-Ye shall not make beside Me gods of silver, or gods of gold.

Place of Worship.-Altars of earth shalt thou make to Me, and sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen. In every place where I cause My name to be worshipped I will come to thee and bless thee. And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool thereon, thou hast polluted it. Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Hebrew Bondmen.-If thou buy an Hebrew bondman, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

HEBREW BONDWOMEN.

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If he come in by himself, he goeth out by himself. If he were married, then his wife goeth out with him. If his master gave him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children belong to her master, and he goeth out by himself.

But if the bondman say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; then his master shall bring him unto the sanctuary judges, and bring him to the door, or the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall be his bondman for ever.

Hebrew Bondwomen.-But if a man sell his daughter to be a bondwoman, she shall not go out as the bondmen do. If she please not her master, who designed her for a concubine for himself, then he may let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he hath no power, seeing he hath deceived her. And if he design her for his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. If he take him another concubine; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. And if he render not these three unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

Capital Offences.-Who smiteth a man that he dieth, shall be put to death.

And if he lay not in wait, but God delivered him into his hand; then I appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. And if a man plan against his neighbor, to slay him with treachery; from Mine altar shalt thou take him, that he die.

Who smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be put to death.

Who stealeth a man, and selleth him, or he is found in his hand; he shall be put to death.

Who curseth his father, or his mother, shall be put to death.

Injury to the Person.-And if men strive, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but take to his bed; if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and his healing. And if a man smite his bondman or his bondwoman with a rod, that they die under his hand, he shall be punished. But if they linger a day or two, he shall not be punished; for they are his money. And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, but no further mischief follow, he that hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman's husband. shall lay upon him; and he shall pay it before the judges.

And if men strive, and any injury ensue, thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. But if a man smite the eye of his bondman, or the eye of his bondwoman, and destroy it, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake. And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth, he shall let them go free for their tooth's sake.

And if a bull gore a man or a woman, that they die, the bull shall be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be quit. But if the bull were wont to gore in time past, and it had been shown to his owner, and he would not keep him in, and he hath killed a man or a woman, both the bull shall be stoned, and his owner put to death. If a ransom be laid upon him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatso