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Exodus 21:34

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

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  1. Exodus 21:32

    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.

  2. Exodus 21:33

    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;

  3. Exodus 21:35

    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.

  4. Exodus 21:36

    Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.