Exodus 21
1 त्यसपछि परमेश्वरले मोशालाई भन्नुभयो, “तिमीले मानिसहरूलाई दिनु पर्ने अन्य नियमहरू यिनै हुन्;
2 “यदि तिमीहरूले हिब्रू कमारा-कमारी किन्यौ भने त्यसले तिमीहरूको छ वर्षसम्म मात्र सेवा गर्नेछन्। छः वर्षपछि ती स्वतन्त्र हुनेछन्। ती कमाराले तिमीलाई केही पनि तिर्नु पर्नेछैन।
3 यदि त्यो मानिस, तिम्रो कमारा हुनअघि विवाह नगरेको भए पत्नी बिनै स्वतन्त्र हुनेछ। तर यदि त्यो मानिस कमारा हुनुअघि नै विवाह गरेको भए उसले आफू स्वतन्त्र हुँदा पत्नीलाई पनि साथै लिएर जानेछ।
4 यदि कमारा अविवाहित छ भने उसको मालिकले उसलाई विवाह गराई दिन सक्नेछ। अनि त्यसरी विवाह भएपछि त्यसकी पत्नीबाट छोरा-छोरी जन्मे त्यसकी पत्नी तथा छोरा-छोरीहरू मालिकका हुन्छन्। त्यस कमाराले आफ्नो सेवा काल पूरा गरी आफू मात्र स्वतन्त्र भएर जानेछ।
5 “तर कमाराले भन्न सक्छ, ‘म आफ्नो मालिकलाई प्रेम गर्छु। म आफ्नी पत्नी र नानीहरूलाई पनि प्रेम गर्छु। यसकारण म स्वतन्त्र हुन मन पराउँदिन।’
6 यदि यस्तो परिस्थिति भए त्यस मालिकले उसलाई न्यायकर्त्ता अघि ल्याएर ढोका अथवा ढोकाको चौकटमा उभ्याउने छ र मालिकले कुनै सियोले उसको कान छेडी दिनेछ। त्यसो गरे पछि त्यो कमारा मालिकको सेवामा जीवन भरी रहनेछ।
7 “कुनै मानिसले आफ्नी छोरीलाई कमारीको रूपमा बेच्न चाहन्छ भने कमारा स्वतन्त्र हुने नियम उसलाई लागू हुँदैन।
8 यदि मालिकले विवाह गर्ने योजनामा कमारी किन्छ तर उसित खुशी हुँदैन भने उसको बाबुलाई त्यो कमारी केटी किन्न दिनुपर्छ। त्यो मालिकले अरूलाई बेच्नु हुँदैन किनभने उसले त्यस कमारीलाई धोका दिएको छ।
9 यदि त्यस मालिकले आफ्नी कमारी छोरोसित विवाह गरिदिने वचन दिए उसले त्यस केटीलाई कमारीलाई जस्तो व्यवहार गर्नु हुदैन तर आफ्नो छोरीलाई जस्तो व्यवहार गर्नुपर्छ।
10 “यदि मालिकले अर्की आइमाई विवाह गरे उसले पहिलेकी पत्नीलाई कम्ती खाना र कम्ती लुगा-फाटा दिनु हुँदैन। उसले उसको पहिलो पत्नीलाई लगातार दाम्पत्य अधिकार अवश्यै दिनुपर्छ।
11 मालिकले त्यस आइमाईको निम्ति यी तीन प्रकारको कार्यहरू गर्नै पर्छ। यदि उसले त्यसो नगरे त्यो आइमाईले स्वतन्त्रता पाउनु पर्छ अनि आफ्नो स्वतन्त्रताको निम्ति केही तिर्नु पर्दैन।
12 “यदि त्यस मानिसले कसैलाई हिर्काएर मार्छ भने त्यो मानिस पनि मारिनु पर्छ।
13 तर यदि कुनै घटना घट्छ र कुनै मानिसले कसैलाई योजना बिनै मार्छ भने, परमेश्वरको इच्छा अनुसार त्यस्तो भएको हो। म यस्तो जग्गा रोज्छु जहाँ मानिसहरू आफ्नो सुराक्षाको निम्ति भागेर जान सक्छन्। मानिसहरू, त्यस ठाउँमा गएर आफ्नो ज्यान जोगाउन सक्छन्।
14 तर यदि कसैले कसैलाई घृणा गरी अथवा रीसमा योजना गरी मार्छ भने त्यो हत्याराले दण्ड भोग्नै पर्छ। त्यसलाई मेरो वेदी देखि टाढा लैजाऊ र मार।
15 “कुनै मानिसले आफ्नो बाबु अथवा आमालाई चोट पुर्यउँछ भने त्यस मानिसलाई मार्नै पर्छ।
16 “यदि कुनै मानिसले कसैलाई कमारा बनाई बेच्न अथवा आफ्नै कमारा बनाउन चोरी गर्छ भने त्यस मानिसलाई मार्नै पर्छ।
17 “यदि कुनै मानिसले आफ्नो आमा-बाबुलाई सराप्छ भने त्यसलाई मार्नै पर्छ।
18 “मानिलेऊ त्यहाँ दुइजना मानिसहरू झगडा गरिरहेका छन्, अनि एउटाले अर्कोलाई मुड्की र ढुङ्गाले हिर्कायो। अथवा त्यो चोट लागेको मानिस मरेन, तर ओछ्यान लाग्यो।
19 यदि चोट लागेको मानिस उठेर लहुरोको भरमा यता उता हिंडछ भने हिर्काउनेले चोट लाग्ने मानिसलाई क्षतिपूर्ति दिनुपर्छ अनि स्वस्थ हुने समयसम्म सहायता गर्नुपर्छ।
20 “कोही मालिकले आफ्नो कमारा-कमारीलाई लट्ठीले कुट्छ अनि यस्तो हिकाईले उसको मृत्यु हुन्छ भने त्यो हत्याराले सजाय पाउनैपर्छ।
21 तर यदि कमारा-कमारी मरेन अनि एकदुइ दिनमा राम्रो भई हाल्यो भने हिर्काउने मानिसलाई सजाय हुँदैन। किन? किनभने कमारा-कमारीको निम्ति उसले दाम तिरेको छ र कमारा कमारी उसका सम्पत्ति हुन्।
22 “दुइ जना मानिस झगडा गर्न सक्छन् अनि यसरी झगडा गर्दा तिनीहरूले कुनै गर्भवती स्त्रीलाई चोट पुग्न सक्छ। यसरी चोट लागेकाले त्यस गर्भवती स्त्रीले समय नपुगी तुह्यो भने। यदि त्यो स्त्रीलाई अन्य कतै चोट नलागे त्यो दोषी मानिसले दण्ड तिर्नु पर्छ। त्यस स्त्रीको पतिले दण्डको रकम तोक्नेछ। न्यायकर्त्ताहरूले त्यस मानिसलाई डाँडको रकम तय गर्नु मद्दत गर्नेछन्।
23 तर यदि त्यस स्त्रीलाई गहिरो चोट लागे, जसले चोट पुर्याउँछ उसले सजाय भोग्नु पर्नेछ। एउटा जीवनको सट्टामा अर्को जीवन लेऊ।
24 तिमीले आँखाको सट्टामा आँखा, दाँतको सट्टामा दाँतु, हातको सट्टामा हात, खुट्टामा खुट्टा।
25 डामको ठाउँमा डाम, खोस्रेको सट्टामा खोस्रिनु नै अनि चोटको ठाउँमा चोट नै लिनु पर्छ।
26 “यदि कसैले आफ्नो कमाराको आँखों फुटाउँछ र ऊ आन्धो हुन्छ भने त्यो कमारा केही नतिरी स्वतन्त्र हुन सक्छ। उसको आँखो नै उसले पाउने स्वतन्त्रता दाम हुन्छ। कमारा-कमारी दुवैको निम्ति एउटै नियम लागू हुन्छ।
27 यदि कुनै मालिकले कमारालाई मुखमा हिर्काएर दाँत फुकाली दिन्छ भने त्यस कमाराले कुनै पैसा नतिरी त्यो स्वतन्त्र भएर जान सक्छ। उसको दाँत नै उसले तिर्नु पर्ने दाम हुन्छ। यस्तो परिस्थितिमा पनि कमारा तथा कमारीको निम्ति त्यही नियम लागू हुन्छ।
28 “यदि कसैको गोरूले कुनै पुरूष अथवा स्त्रीहरूलाई मार्छ भने त्यस गोरूलाई पनि ढुङ्गाले हिर्काएर मार्नु पर्छ। तिमीहरूले त्यो गोरूको मासु खानु हुँदैन तर त्यस गोरूको मालिक निर्दोष हुन्छ।
29 त्यस गोरूले पहिले कसैलाई हानेको थियो अनि त्यसको मालिकलाई चेताउनी दिइएको थियो तर उसले गोरूलाई बाँधेन। तब तिमीले गोरू र त्यसको मालिकलाई ढुङ्गाले हिर्काएर मार्नु पर्छ।
30 तर यदि गोरूले हानेर मारिएको मानिसको परिवारले क्षतिपूर्ती लिन्छ भने त्यो गोरूको मालिकलाई मार्नु हुँदैन। तर उसले क्षतिपूर्ती अवश्यै गर्नु पर्छ।
31 “कुनै मानिसको छोरा अथवा छोरी त्यसरी मारिए पनि त्यही नियम लागू हुन्छ।
32 तर यदि गोरूले कुनै कमारा अथवा कमारीलाई मारे गोरूको मालिकले कमारा-कमारीको मालिकलाई तीस शेकेल चाँदी तिर्नु पर्छ अनि गोरूलाई ढुङ्गाले हिर्काएर मार्नु पर्छ।
33 “कुनै मानिसले इनारको ढकनी हटाउन सक्छ अथवा मैदानमा एउटा इनार खन्न सक्छ र त्यसको ढकनी लाउँदैन अनि त्यसभित्र एउटा साँढे अथवा गधा खस्न सक्छ।
34 इनारको मालिकले पशुको क्षतिपूर्ति तिर्नु पर्छ। क्षतिपूर्ति तिरे पछि त्यो जाकिने पशु त्यसको सम्पत्ति हुन्छ।
35 “यदि कुनै मानिसको गोरूले अर्का मानिसको गोरू मार्छ भने तिनीहरूले जिउँदो गोरूलाई बेच्नु पर्छ तब तिनीहरूले बेचेको मूल्य र मृत गोरू बराबरी बाढनु पर्छ।
36 तर यदि कुनै मानिसको गोरूले अरू पशुहरूलाई हान्छ भने यसको मालिकले यसलाई नियंत्रण गर्दैन भने उसको गोरूले हानेको पशुको बदलामा पशु दिनु पर्छ।
1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
27 And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
35 And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt;
2 Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
8 And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them.
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
12 And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.
13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
14 And when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God:
16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
17 And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.
25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.