1 ! Temporal and ciuilee ordinances, appointed by God, touching servitude, murthers, and wronges: the observation whereof doeth not justifie a man, but are giuen to bridel our corrupt nature, which els wolde breake out into all mischief and crueltie.
2 a Paying no money for his libertie.
3 b Not hauing wife nor children.
4 c Till her time of seruitude was expired, which might be the seuenth yere or the fiftieth.
6 e That is, to the yere of Jubile, which was euerie fiftieth yere.
6 d Where the judges sate.
7 f Constreined ether by pouertie, or els that the master shulde mary her.
8 g By giuing another money to bye her of him.
9 h That is, he shal giue her dowrie.
11 k Nether mary her him selfe, nor giue an other money to bye her, nor bestowe her vpon his sonne.
13 l Thogh a man be killed at vnwares, yet it is Gods prouidence, that it shulde so be.
14 m The holines of the place oght not defend the murtherer.
18 n Ether far of him or nere.
19 o By the ciuile justice.
21 p By the ciuile Magistrate, but before God he is a murtherer.
22 q Of the mother, or childe.
24 r The execution of this lawe onely belonged to the Magistrat, {mat. 5,33}.
27 s So God reuengeth crueltie in moste least things.
28 t If the beast be punished, muche more shal the murtherer.
29 / Or, testified to him.
30 u By the next of the kinred of him that is so slayne.
34 y This lawe forbiddeth not onely not to hurt, but to beware lest any be hurt.