ilee, which is the fiftieth year, and let him
then take away with him his children and wife, and let them be free
also.

29. If any one find gold or silver on the road, let him inquire after
him that lost it, and make proclamation of the place where he found it,
and then restore it to him again, as not thinking it right to make his
own profit by the loss of another. And the same rule is to be observed
in cattle found to have wandered away into a lonely place. If the owner
be not presently discovered, let him that is the finder keep it with
himself, and appeal to God that he has not purloined what belongs to
another.

30. It is not lawful to pass by any beast that is in distress, when in a
storm it is fallen down in the mire, but to endeavor to preserve it, as
having a sympathy with it in its pain.

31. It is also a duty to show the roads to those who do not know
them, and not to esteem it a matter for sport, when we hinder others'
advantages, by setting them in a wrong way.

32. In like manner, let no one revile a person blind or dumb.

33. If men strive together, and there be no instrument of iron, let
him that is smitten be avenged immediately, by inflicting the same
punishment on him that smote him: but if when he is carried home he
lie sick many days, and then die, let him that smote him not escape
punishment; but if he that is smitten escape death, and yet be at
great expense for his cure, the smiter shall pay for all that has been
expended during the time of his sickness, and for all that he has paid
the physician. He that kicks a woman with child, so that the woman
miscarry, [28] let him pay a fine in money, as the judges shall
determine, as having diminished the multitude by the destruction of what
was in her womb; and let money also be given the woman's husband by him
that kicked her; but if she die of the stroke, let him also be put to
death, the law judging it equitable that life should go for life.

34. Let no one of the Israelites keep any poison [29] that may cause
death, or any other harm; but if he be caught with it, let him be put to
death, and suffer the very same mischief that he would have brought upon
them for whom the poison was prepared.

35. He that maimeth any one, let him undergo the like himself, and be
deprived of the same member of which he hath deprived the other, unless
he that is maimed will accept of money instead of it [30] for the law
makes the sufferer the judge of the value o