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Exodus 21:31-33
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31 If the ox[a] gores a son or a daughter, the owner[b] will be dealt with according to this rule.[c] 32 If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner[d] must pay thirty shekels of silver,[e] and the ox must be stoned.[f]

33 “If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

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  1. Exodus 21:31 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the ox) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. Exodus 21:31 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the owner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. Exodus 21:31 tn Heb “according to this judgment it shall be done to him.”
  4. Exodus 21:32 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the owner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  5. Exodus 21:32 sn A shekel was a unit for measure by means of a scale. Both the weight and the value of a shekel of silver are hard to determine. “Though there is no certainty, the shekel is said to weigh about 11,5 grams” (C. Houtman, Exodus, 3:181). Over 400 years earlier, Joseph was sold into Egypt for 20 shekels. The free Israelite citizen was worth about 50 shekels (Lev 27:3f.).
  6. Exodus 21:32 sn See further B. S. Jackson, “The Goring Ox Again [Ex. 21, 28-36],” JJP 18 (1974): 55-94.
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