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New Revised Standard

Exodus 21:34

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Bullock;   Damages and Compensation;   Money;   Property;   Restitution;   Trespass;   The Topic Concordance - Livestock;   Recompense/restitution;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Wells and Springs;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Pit;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Punishments;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Capital Punishment;   Pit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Covenant, Book of the;   Ethics;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Sin;   Ten Commandments;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ox, Oxen;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Punishments;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Good;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Accident;   Well;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
King James Version
The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
Lexham English Bible
the owner of the pit will pay restitution; he will pay silver to its owner, but the dead animal will be for him.
New Century Version
the owner of the pit must pay the owner of the animal for the loss. The dead animal will belong to the one who pays.
New English Translation
the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to its owner, and the dead animal will become his.
Amplified Bible
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to the animal's owner, but the dead [animal] shall be his.
New American Standard Bible
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The owner of the pit shall make it good, and giue money to the owners thereof, but the dead beast shalbe his.
Legacy Standard Bible
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.
Contemporary English Version
You must pay for the dead animal, and it becomes yours.
Complete Jewish Bible
the owner of the cistern must make good the loss by compensating the animal's owner; but the dead animal will be his.
Darby Translation
the owner of the pit shall make it good, shall give money to the owner of them; and the dead [ox] shall be his.
Easy-to-Read Version
The man who owns the hole must pay for the animal. But after he pays for the animal, he will be allowed to keep the body of that animal.
English Standard Version
the owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.
George Lamsa Translation
The owner of the pit shall pay money to the owner of the animal, and the dead animal shall be his.
Good News Translation
he must pay for the animal. He is to pay the money to the owner and may keep the dead animal.
Christian Standard Bible®
the owner of the pit must give compensation; he must pay to its owner, but the dead animal will become his.
Literal Translation
the owner of the pit shall pay; he shall give silver to its owner, and the dead shall be his.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then shall the owner of the pytt make it good with money, and restore it vnto his master: but the deed carcase shalbe his owne.
American Standard Version
the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead beast shall be his.
Bible in Basic English
The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The owner of the pitte shall make it good, & geue money vnto their maister, and the dead beast shall be his.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his.
King James Version (1611)
The owner of the pit shall make it good, and giue money vnto the owner of them, and the dead beast shalbe his.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the owner of the pit shall make compensation; he shall give money to their owner, and the dead shall be his own.
English Revised Version
the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his.
Berean Standard Bible
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the lord of the cisterne schal yelde the prijs of the werk beestis; forsothe that that is deed schal be his.
Young's Literal Translation
the owner of the pit doth repay, money he doth give back to its owner, and the dead is his.
Update Bible Version
the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner thereof, and the dead [beast] shall be his.
Webster's Bible Translation
The owner of the pit shall make compensation, [and] give money to the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his.
World English Bible
the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
New King James Version
the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to their owner, but the dead animal shall be his.
New Living Translation
The owner of the pit must pay full compensation to the owner of the animal, but then he gets to keep the dead animal.
New Life Bible
the owner of the hole will pay for the loss. He will give money to the animal's owner. And the dead animal will become his.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the owner of the pit, shall make it good, silver, shall he pay back to the owner thereof, - and the dead beast, shall be his.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.
Revised Standard Version
the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.

Contextual Overview

22 When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no further harm follows, the one responsible shall be fined what the woman's husband demands, paying as much as the judges determine. 23 If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 When a slaveowner strikes the eye of a male or female slave, destroying it, the owner shall let the slave go, a free person, to compensate for the eye. 27 If the owner knocks out a tooth of a male or female slave, the slave shall be let go, a free person, to compensate for the tooth. 28 When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall not be liable. 29 If the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not restrained it, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30 If a ransom is imposed on the owner, then the owner shall pay whatever is imposed for the redemption of the victim's life. 31 If it gores a boy or a girl, the owner shall be dealt with according to this same rule.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 21:29, Exodus 21:30, Exodus 22:6, Exodus 22:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:5 - shall he make restitution Leviticus 24:18 - that killeth

Cross-References

Genesis 20:1
From there Abraham journeyed toward the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While residing in Gerar as an alien,
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
Psalms 39:12
"Hear my prayer, O Lord , and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:13
All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The owner of the pit shall make it good,.... Repair the loss of the ox or ass:

and give the money unto the owner of them: the price of them, what they are worth: the Targum of Jonathan is,

"the owner of the pit shall pay the silver, he shall return to its owner the price of the ox or ass:''

and the dead beast shall be his; either the owner of the pit; who pays the full value for the ox or ass killed, which seems but reasonable; or

"the injured person as Jarchi, for he says, they reckon or estimate the carcass, and he takes it for the price;''

that is, for part of the price it is valued at.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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


 
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