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Exodus 21:33 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: 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; "
Exodus 21:33
Verse in Context
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31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 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;
34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
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Exodus 21:1
"Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them."
Exodus 21:2
"If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing."
Exodus 21:3
"If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him."
Exodus 21:4
"If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself."
Exodus 21:5
"And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:"
Exodus 21:6
"Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever."
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