If any one be sold to one of his own nation, let him serve him six
years, and on the seventh let him go free. But if he have a son by a woman
servant in his purchaser’s house, and if, on account of his good-will to
his master, and his natural affection to his wife and children, he will
be his servant still, let him be set free only at the coming of the year
of jubilee, which is the fiftieth year, and let him then take away with
him his children and wife, and let them be free also. 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. 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. 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. In like manner, let no one revile a person blind or dumb.