Exodus 21:33

"If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

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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 bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

34the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made.In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

Proverbs 28:10Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way,he will fall into his own trap;but the blameless will inherit good.

Jeremiah 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away 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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