◄ Exodus 21:34 ►
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Good News Translation
he must pay for the animal. He is to pay the money to the owner and may keep the dead animal.

New Revised Standard Version
the owner of the pit shall make restitution, giving money to its owner, but keeping the dead animal.

Contemporary English Version
You must pay for the dead animal, and it becomes yours.

New American Bible
the owner of the cistern must make good by restoring the value of the animal to its owner, but the dead animal he may keep.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

Exodus 21:29,30 But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. . . .

Exodus 22:6,14 If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall make good the loss. . . .

Context
Laws about Restitution
33If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it, 34The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.35If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:…
Cross References
Exodus 21:33
If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,

Exodus 21:35
If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:

Exodus 21:33
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