Exodus 21:34

The owner of the pit shall make it good, and giue money to the owners thereof, but the dead beast shalbe his.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

In Context

33And when a man shall open a well, or when he shall dig a pit and couer it not, and an oxe or an asse fall therein,

35And if a mans oxe hurt his neighbours oxe that he die, then they shall sel the liue oxe, and deuide the money thereof, and the dead oxe also they shall deuide.

Read all of Exodus 21

Cross References

Exodus 21:29If the oxe were wont to push in times past, and it hath bene tolde his master, and hee hath not kept him, and after he killeth a man or a woman, the oxe shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.

Exodus 22:6If fire breake out, and catche in ye thornes, and the stackes of corne, or the standing corne, or the fielde be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution.

2 Samuel 12:6And he shall restore the lambe foure folde, because he did this thing, and had no pitie thereof.

Ezekiel 33:15To wit, if the wicked restore the pledge, and giue againe that he had robbed, and walke in the statutes of life, without committing iniquitie, he shall surely liue, and not die.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Exodus 21:34