A13203:750
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
when men stry•e and smite a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her and yet no misfortune followeth: then shall he be mersed, according as the woman's husband will lay to his charge, and he shall pay as the daysmen appoint him. But and if any misfortune follow, then shall he pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for ⟨p. XXXVII⟩wound and stripe for stripe.
when men stry•e and smyte a woman with childe so that hir frute departe from her and yet no mysfortune foloweth: then shall he be mersed, acordynge as the womans husbonde will laye to his charge, and he shall paye as the dayesmen appoynte him. But and yf any mysfortune folowe, then shall he paye lyfe for lyfe, eye for eye, toth for toth, hande for hande, fote for fote, burnynge for burnynge, wonde for ⟨p. XXXVII⟩wonde and strype for strype.
If a man smite his servant or his maid in the eye and put it out, he shall let them goo free for the eyes sake. Also if he smite out his servants or his maids tooth, he shall let them go out free for the tooth's sake.1
Yf a man smyte his servaunte or his mayde in the eye and put it out, he shall let thē goo fre for the eyes sake. Also yf he smyte out hys servauntes or his maydes toth, he shall let thē go out fre for the tothes sake.1
- 1God so abhorreth murder, that the unreasonable bests must dye therefore. and there flesh cast away