Exodus 21:33

If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;

In Context

32If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

34The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:15\9:14\So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.

Proverbs 28:10Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

Jeremiah 18:20Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:23-36

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall… Read the whole commentary →

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