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Exodus 21:33-36

EXODUS—NOTE ON Exodus 21:33 If a person was irresponsible (such as in not covering a pit, v. Exodus 21:33) or had previous knowledge of a problem (such as knowing but disregarding an ox’s tendency to gore, v. Exodus 21:36), such things should be taken into account when determining the amount of a fine.

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See also Exodus 21:33-36 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 21:33. _AND IF A MAN SHALL OPEN A PIT, OR - DIG A PIT_] That is, if a man shall open a _well_ or _cistern_ that had been before closed up, or dig a new one; for these two cases are plain...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The usual mode of protecting a well in the East was probably then, as now, by building round it a low circular wall....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 21 DIFFERENT JUDGMENTS _ 1. Master and servant (Exodus 21:1)_ 2. Concerning injury to the person (Exodus 21:12) 3. Concerning property (Exodus 21:33) The Three Chapter s which follow the gi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 21:28 E. DAMAGES BY OR TO CATTLE. An ox goring anyone to death must be stoned, and might not be eaten, as tainted with blood-guilt (Exodus 21:28). In ancient Greece and elsewhere, and even in m...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Bodily injuries, caused (_a_) by human beings, _vv._18 27; (_b_) by animals, or through the neglect of reasonable precautions, _vv._28 36....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Bodily injuries due to animals, or neglect of reasonable precautions....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Injury caused by culpable neglect in leaving an open pit. _open_ i.e. open a pit which already existed = _reopen_. _a pit_ for the storage of water or (cf. Jeremiah 41:8; Thomson, _L. and B._i. 89, 9...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IF A MAN SHALL OPEN A PIT— We have had frequent occasion, in our notes on the Book of Genesis, to mention these _pits_ which were usually dug in this country; and which, being dug in common or public...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 21NOW THESE ARE THE ORDINANCES WHICH THOU SHALT SET BEFORE them. (2) If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IF AN OX GORE A MAN OR A WOMAN, THAT THEY DIE: THEN THE OX SHALL BE SURELY STONED, AND HIS FLESH SHALL NOT BE EATEN; BUT THE OWNER OF THE OX SHALL BE QUIT._ If an ox gore a man. For the purpose of s...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONTINUED) I-ii. Regulations regarding the Treatment of Hebrew Slaves. Slavery was universal in ancient times, and the Mosaic Law does not abolish it. Among the Hebrews, howe...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 21 *HEBREW SLAVES – VERSES 1-11 V1 The *LORD continued to speak to...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LAWS CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY. (33-36) The legislation slides from rights of persons to rights of property easily and without effort, by passing from the injuries which cattle cause to those...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IF A MAN SHALL OPEN A PIT. — Rather, _uncover a well._ The wells in the East commonly have covers, which are removed when water is drawn, and then replaced. If a man neglected to replace a cover, he w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ כִֽי ־יִפְתַּ֨ח אִ֜ישׁ בֹּ֗ור אֹ֠ו כִּֽי

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    PART III.--RIGHTS OF PROPERTY. Exodus 21:33 - Exodus 22:15. The vital and quickening principle in this section is the stress it lays upon man's responsibility for negligence, and the indirect consequ...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    At this point we have certain laws which apply the principles of the Decalogue to life. The first movement has to do with the laws of the person. This begins with the relation of slaves to their maste...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, from those laws, how offensive in the sight of God blood-shedding is, even when committed by the unconscious brute, as well as by rational creatures....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    33._And if a man shall open a pit _He enumerates still more cases of damage inflicted, in which restitution is to be demanded of the person who gave occasion for the occurrence. First, it is said, If...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IF A MAN SHALL OPEN A PIT,.... That has been dug in time past, and filled up again, or take the covering from it, and leave it uncovered: "or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it": a new one, in...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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; Ver. 33. _And an ox or an ass._] We can hardly open the deep pit of God's bottomless, b...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Lawes for men seruants. 5 For the seruant whose eare is boared. 7 For women seruants. 12 For manslaughter. 16 For stealers of men. 17 For cursers of parents. 18 For smiters. 22 For a hurt by...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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, the result being that his neighbor is harmed in his possessions,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ORDINANCES FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    RESPONSIBILITIES OF MASTERS (vs.1-11) Moses is now given an expanded view of the law on Chapter s 21-23. Special duties of masters are first considered. They may think they have full authority over t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    22-36 The cases here mentioned give rules of justice then, and still in use, for deciding similar matters. We are taught by these laws, that we must be very careful to do no wrong, either directly or...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    If a man shall either OPEN an old pit which hath been covered with earth; or DIG a new PIT, to wit, in a public way, as the reason of the law shows; for if it were done in a man's own house or ground,...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 21:33 man H376 opens H6605 (H8799) pit H953 man H376 digs H3738 (H8799) pit H953 cover...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    REGULATIONS FOR INJURIES IN CONNECTION WITH BEASTS (EXODUS 21:28). In this section there is a very basic chiasmus: a Punishment for the goring of a man or woman (Exodus 21:28). b Punishment in respe...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Laws concerning servants. Injuries to the person. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The great God of heaven stoops to take interest in the detail affairs between man and man and makes re...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 21:1. _These are the judgments._ In this chapter we enter upon the fifty seven precepts of the civil law of the Hebrew nation. They are the laws of patriarchal society; and are here arranged an...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If an ox gore._ GOD’S REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF MAN AND BEAST I. God cares for the safety of man. 1. If an ox injured a man for the first time, the life of the ox only was forfeited (Exodus 21:28)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:28_ GOD’S REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF MAN AND BEAST.—_Exodus 21:28_ This is an extension of the principle maintained in the preceding section,—the sanctity...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Exodus chapter twenty-one, God said to Moses, Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them (Exodus 21:1). Now the judgments are really for the judges. You remember they appointed seve...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Psalms 9:15 Psalms 119:85 Proverbs 28:10 Ecclesiastes 10:8...

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