Exodus 21:33

If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Berean Standard Bible

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 ox gores a manservant or maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.

34the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:15The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

Proverbs 28:10He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

Jeremiah 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath 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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