The laws about servant and injury

Exodus 21:1-27

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 

But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death. However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.

There is no division between civil and religious law. Most oriental codes deal with legal matters only: morals and religion belong elsewhere. In the Bible legal, moral and religious laws are inseparable, showing God's concern for life as a whole.

There is one law for all, whatever a person's status. Regulations protecting the weak and helpless (slave, orphans, widows, foreigners) are particularly striking.

Why?

Accidently event makes someone die, who is not scheme to kill someone, so it is not be put to death.

Hebrew law gives to Israelite a rule to judge many things among life and property among people.

The Lord not only takes care of the living of his people but also caring the righteousness of human beings. Because without righteousness people could not have safe and real joy.

How?

Righteousness and mercy are the way of the Lord.