Exodus 21:33
Good News Translation
"If someone takes the cover off a pit or if he digs one and does not cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

New Revised Standard Version
If someone leaves a pit open, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Contemporary English Version
Suppose someone's ox or donkey is killed by falling into an open pit that you dug or left uncovered on your property.

New American Bible
When someone uncovers or digs a cistern and does not cover it over again, should an ox or a donkey fall into it,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,

Psalm 9:15 I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

Psalm 119:85 The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.

Proverbs 28:10 He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.

Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Jeremiah 18:20,22 Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them. . . .

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.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:32
If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

Exodus 21:34
The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

Exodus 21:32
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