Keluaran 21:28

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Apabila seekor lembu menanduk seorang laki-laki atau perempuan, sehingga mati, maka pastilah lembu itu dilempari mati dengan batu dan dagingnya tidak boleh dimakan, tetapi pemilik lembu itu bebas dari hukuman.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Apabila seekor lembu menanduk seorang laki-laki atau perempuan, sehingga mati, maka pastilah lembu itu dilempari mati dengan batu dan dagingnya tidak boleh dimakan, tetapi pemilik lembu itu bebas dari hukuman.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka jikalau kiranya seekor lembu menanduk seorang laki-laki atau perempuan sampai mati, maka tak akan jangan lembu itu dilempar dengan batu sampai mati, dagingnya tak boleh dimakan, tetapi yang punya lembu itu tiada menanggung salah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the ox: Exodus 21:32, Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, Leviticus 20:15, Leviticus 20:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:14 - thou art Exodus 19:13 - whether Deuteronomy 17:8 - between blood Deuteronomy 22:8 - then thou shalt

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die,.... That are Israelites, of whom only Aben Ezra interprets it; but though they may be principally designed, yet not solely; for no doubt if one of another nation was gored to death by the ox of an Israelite, the same penalty would be inflicted, as follows:

then the ox shall be surely stoned; which is but an exemplification of the original law given to Noah and his sons, Genesis 9:5: "at the hand of every beast will I require it"; i.e. the blood of the lives of men; which shows the care God takes of them, that even a beast must die that is the means of shedding man's blood:

and his flesh shall not be eaten; it being as an impure beast according to this sentence, as Maimonides l observes; and even though it might have been killed in a regular manner before it was stoned, it was not to be eaten; no, not even by Heathens, nor by dogs might it be eaten, as a dead carcass might by a proselyte of the gate, or a stranger; this might not be given nor sold to him; for, as Aben Ezra observes, all profit of them is here forbidden:

but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit; from punishment, as the last mentioned writer observes, from suffering death; he shall only suffer the loss of his ox: the Targum of Jonathan is,

"he shall be quit from the judgment of slaughter (or condemnation of murder), and also from the price of a servant or maid,''

which was thirty shekels, Exodus 21:32.

l Hilchot Maacolot Asurot, c. 4. sect. 22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The animal was slain as a tribute to the sanctity of human life (Compare the marginal references and Genesis 4:11). It was stoned, and its flesh was treated as carrion. Guilty negligence on the part of its owner was reckoned a capital offence, to be commuted for a fine.

In the case of a slave, the payment was the standard price of a slave, thirty shekels of silver. See Leviticus 25:44-46; Leviticus 27:3, and the marginal references for the New Testament application of this fact.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 21:28. If an ox gore a man — It is more likely that a bull is here intended, as the word signifies both, see Exodus 22:1; and the Septuagint translate the שור shor of the original by ταυρος, a bull. Mischief of this kind was provided against by most nations. It appears that the Romans twisted hay about the horns of their dangerous cattle, that people seeing it might shun them; hence that saying of Horace. Sat., lib. i., sat. 4, ver. 34: Faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge. "He has hay on his horns; fly for life!" The laws of the twelve tables ordered, That the owner of the beast should pay for what damages he committed, or deliver him to the person injured. Exodus 22:1.

His flesh shall not be eaten — This served to keep up a due detestation of murder, whether committed by man or beast; and at the same time punished the man as far as possible, by the total loss of the beast.