DAMAGES AND COMPENSATION

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• Exodus 21:18

  “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;

• Exodus 21:19

  if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

• Exodus 21:22

  “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.

• Exodus 21:28

  “If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

• Exodus 21:29

  But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

• Exodus 21:30

  If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

• Exodus 21:31

  Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

• Exodus 21:32

  If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

• Exodus 21:33

  “If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

• Exodus 21:34

  the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

• Leviticus 6:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Leviticus 6:2

  “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

• Leviticus 6:3

  or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of these things that a man does, sinning therein;

• Leviticus 6:4

  then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

• Leviticus 6:5

  or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

• Deuteronomy 22:13

  If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,

• Deuteronomy 22:14

  accuses her of shameful things, and gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity”;

• Deuteronomy 22:15

  then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

• Deuteronomy 22:16

  The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.

• Deuteronomy 22:17

  Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

• Deuteronomy 22:18

  The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

• Deuteronomy 22:19

  They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

• Deuteronomy 22:28

  If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found;

• Deuteronomy 22:29

  then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.