H0176A–אוֹ–o

And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.

א֥וֹ 'o “or”

Then Laban and Bethuel said in answer, This is the Lord's doing: it is not for us to say Yes or No to you.

אוֹ־ 'ov- “or”

But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.

א֣וֹ 'o “or”

Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

א֥וֹ 'o “or”

See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?

א֥וֹ 'o “or”

My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

אוֹ־ 'ov- “or”

And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

א֚וֹ 'o “or”א֣וֹ 'o “or”א֥וֹ 'o “or”א֣וֹ 'o “or”

And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

א֥וֹ 'o “or”

He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain.

אוֹ־ 'ov- “or”

If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

א֣וֹ 'o “or”

Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

א֖וֹ 'o “or”

If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

א֣וֹ 'o “or”

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

א֤וֹ 'o “or”

But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

א֥וֹ 'o “or”

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

אֽוֹ־ 'ov- “or”

Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

אֽוֹ־ 'ov- “or”

If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.

א֥וֹ 'o “or”

But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to de

א֣וֹ 'o “or”

If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.

אוֹ־ 'ov- “or”אוֹ־ 'ov- “or”

If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

א֣וֹ 'o “or”

If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;

א֠וֹ 'o “or”א֥וֹ 'o “or”

But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

א֣וֹ 'o “or”

If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no mon

אוֹ־ 'ov- “or”א֣וֹ 'o “or”

If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.

אוֹ־ 'ov- “or”

If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.

א֥וֹ 'o “or”א֣וֹ 'o “or”