<p class="bodytext">One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.<n id="1" />p>

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the <sc>Lordsc> your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.<n id="1" />p>

&#8216;Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

However, suppose a person hates someone else<n id="1" /> and stalks him, attacks him, kills him,<n id="2" /> and then flees to one of these cities.

You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites,<n id="1" /> and regards him as mere property<n id="2" /> and sells him, that kidnapper<n id="3" /> must die. In this way you will purge<n id="4" /> evil from among you.p>

Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him,<n id="1" /> and kill him,<n id="2" /> though this is not a capital case<n id="3" /> since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

You must not do anything to the young woman &#8211; she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person<n id="1" /> and murders him,

Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the <sc>Lordsc> will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.