Holman Christian Standard Bible

Exodus 21:26-36 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

26. “When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.

27. If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his tooth.

28. “When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox’s owner is innocent.

29. However, if the ox was in the habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned, and its owner must also be put to death.

30. If instead a ransom is demanded of him, he can pay a redemption price for his life in the full amount demanded from him.

31. If it gores a son or a daughter, he is to be dealt with according to this same law.

32. If the ox gores a male or female slave, he must give 30 shekels of silver to the slave’s master, and the ox must be stoned.

33. “When a man uncovers a pit or digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

34. the owner of the pit must give compensation; he must pay money to its owner, but the dead animal will become his.

35. “When a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live ox and divide its proceeds; they must also divide the dead animal.

36. If, however, it is known that the ox was in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not restrained it, he must compensate fully, ox for ox; the dead animal will become his.