Exodus 21:33

If someone removes the cover of a cistern or digs one and doesn't cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

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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 uses its horns and kills a male or female slave, the owner of the ox must pay thirty shekels of silver to the slave's master, and the ox must be stoned to death.

34the owner of the pit must pay compensation to the animal's owner and keep the dead animal.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:15The nations have fallen into their own pit they dug; their feet are trapped by their own net they set.

Proverbs 28:10Those who lead good people astray into evil ways will fall into their own traps, but the innocent will receive a good reward.

Jeremiah 18:20Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they have dug a pit to trap me! Remember how I stood before you to plead on their behalf, to stop you being angry with 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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