New Century Version

Exodus 21:30-36 New Century Version (NCV)

30. But if the family of the dead person accepts money, the one who owned the bull may buy back his life, but he must pay whatever is demanded.

31. Use this same law if the bull kills a person’s son or daughter.

32. If the bull kills a male or female slave, the owner must pay the master the price for a new slave, or twelve ounces of silver, and the bull must also be stoned to death.

33. “If a man takes the cover off a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and another man’s ox or donkey comes and falls into it,

34. 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.

35. “If a man’s bull kills another man’s bull, they must sell the bull that is alive. Both men will get half of the money and half of the bull that was killed.

36. But if a person’s bull has hurt other animals in the past and the owner did not keep it in a pen, that owner must pay bull for bull, and the dead animal is his.