H9005–/ל–l

And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

לִּ֔י (לִּ֔) L “for <the>”

Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃ (לִ) li “<to>”

If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

לַֽחָפְשִׁ֖י (לַֽ) la. “to <the>”

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.

ל֣וֹ (ל֣) l “to <the>”ל֥וֹ (ל֥) l “to <the>”לַֽאדֹנֶ֔יהָ (לַֽ) la. “to”

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.

לְעֹלָֽם׃ (לְ) le. “for”

And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

לְאָמָ֑ה (לְ) le. “to”

If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

ל֥וֹ (ל֥) l “for <the>”לְעַ֥ם (לְ) le. “to”לְמָכְרָ֖הּ (לְ) le. “to”

And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

לִבְנ֖וֹ (לִ) li “for”לָּֽהּ׃ (לָּֽ) La “to <the>”

And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

ל֑וֹ (ל֑) l “for <the>”

And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

לָ֑הּ (לָ֑) La “for <the>”

But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

לְיָד֑וֹ (לְ) le. “to”לְךָ֙ (לְ) le. “for <the>”

But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

לְהָרְג֣וֹ (לְ) le. “to”לָמֽוּת׃ (לָ) la. “to”

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;

לְמִשְׁכָּֽב׃ (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לַֽחָפְשִׁ֥י (לַֽ) la. “to <the>”

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

לַֽחָפְשִׁ֥י (לַֽ) la. “to <the>”

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

לּֽוֹ׃ (לּֽ) l “to <the>”

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.

לַֽאדֹנָ֔יו (לַֽ) la. “to”

The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.

לִבְעָלָ֑יו (לִ) li “to”לּֽוֹ׃ (לּֽ) l “to <the>”

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.

לּֽוֹ׃ (לּֽ) l “to <the>”

If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.

ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “for <the>”

But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

ל֑וֹ (ל֑) l “[will be] for <the>”ל֔וֹ (ל֔) l “[belongs] to <the>”

If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value.

לִשְׁמֹ֔ר (לִ) li “to”

In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice t

לְרֵעֵֽהוּ׃ (לְ) le. “to”

If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it:

לִשְׁמֹ֑ר (לִ) li “to”

But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner.

לִבְעָלָֽיו׃ (לִ) li “to”