出埃及記21:12-36

21:12 「打人以致打死的，必要把他治死。
21:13 人若不是埋伏著殺人，乃是上帝交在他手中，我就設下一個地方，他可以往那裡逃跑。
21:14 人若任意用詭計殺了他的鄰舍，就是逃到我的壇那裡，也當捉去把他治死。
21:15 「打父母的，必要把他治死。
21:16 「拐帶人口，或是把人賣了，或是留在他手下，必要把他治死。
21:17 「咒罵父母的，必要把他治死。
21:18 「人若彼此相爭，這個用石頭或是拳頭打那個，尚且不至於死，不過躺臥在床，
21:19 若再能起來扶杖而出，那打他的可算無罪；但要將他耽誤的工夫用錢賠補，並要將他全然醫好。
21:20 「人若用棍子打奴僕或婢女，立時死在他的手下，他必要受刑。
21:21 若過一兩天才死，就可以不受刑，因為是用錢買的。
21:22 「人若彼此爭鬥，傷害有孕的婦人，甚至墜胎，隨後卻無別害，那傷害她的，總要按婦人的丈夫所要的，照審判官所斷的，受罰。
21:23 若有別害，就要以命償命，
21:24 以眼還眼，以牙還牙，以手還手，以腳還腳，
21:25 以烙還烙，以傷還傷，以打還打。
21:26 「人若打壞了他奴僕或是婢女的一隻眼，就要因他的眼放他去得以自由。
21:27 若打掉了他奴僕或是婢女的一個牙，就要因他的牙放他去得以自由。」
21:28 「牛若觸死男人或是女人，總要用石頭打死那牛，卻不可吃牠的肉；牛的主人可算無罪。
21:29 倘若那牛素來是觸人的，有人報告了牛主，他竟不把牛拴著，以致把男人或是女人觸死，就要用石頭打死那牛，牛主也必治死。
21:30 若罰他贖命的價銀，他必照所罰的贖他的命。
21:31 牛無論觸了人的兒子或是女兒，必照這例辦理。
21:32 牛若觸了奴僕或是婢女，必將銀子三十舍客勒給他們的主人，也要用石頭把牛打死。
21:33 「人若敞著井口，或挖井不遮蓋，有牛或驢掉在裡頭，
21:34 井主要拿錢賠還本主人，死牲畜要歸自己。
21:35 「這人的牛若傷了那人的牛，以至於死，他們要賣了活牛，平分價值，也要平分死牛。
21:36 人若知道這牛素來是觸人的，主人竟不把牛拴著，他必要以牛還牛，死牛要歸自己。」

¹² “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death. ¹³ However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. ¹⁴ But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.
¹⁵ “Anyone who attacks^[c] their father or mother is to be put to death.
¹⁶ “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.
¹⁷ “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.
¹⁸ “If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist^[d] and the victim does not die but is confined to bed, ¹⁹ the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.
²⁰ “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, ²¹ but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
²² “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely^[e] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. ²³ But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, ²⁴ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵ burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
²⁶ “An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. ²⁷ And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.
²⁸ “If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. ²⁹ If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death. ³⁰ However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded. ³¹ This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter. ³² If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels^[f] of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.
³³ “If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it, ³⁴ the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.
³⁵ “If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally. ³⁶ However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.

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    上帝是與人一起生活的上帝，他也管理到人的日常瑣碎的生活，人與人之間的爭吵與衝突，祂也看顧也處理。然而這一切的律例，都是為了保護人，展現上帝的慈愛！

    有許多人把上帝看成是超然的，認為上帝不處理人間小事。若是看了ˋ這一段經文，相信這種論調是站立不住的！上帝是眷顧百姓的上帝，人間小事祂當然看顧與處理！

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