Exodus 21:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

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  • Matt 26:15 : 15 What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.
  • Zech 11:12-13 : 12 And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver. 13 And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.
  • Matt 27:3-9 : 3 Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority, 4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business. 5 And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging. 6 And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood. 7 And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries. 8 For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day. 9 Then came true that which was said by Jeremiah the prophet, And they took the thirty bits of silver, the price of him who was valued by the children of Israel;
  • Phil 2:7 : 7 But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;
  • Gen 37:28 : 28 And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.
  • Exod 21:28-29 : 28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible. 29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 83%

    25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.

    26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

    27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

    28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.

    29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.

    30 If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.

    31 If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.

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    33 If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;

    34 The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.

    35 And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.

    36 But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

  • 1 If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

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    19 If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.

    20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

    21 But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

  • 4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

  • Exod 22:9-10
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    9 In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.

    10 If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it:

  • Exod 21:5-8
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    5 But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

    6 Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

    7 And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

    8 If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

  • Exod 22:4-5
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    4 If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.

    5 If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.

  • Lev 27:3-7
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    3 And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place.

    4 And if it is a female, the value will be thirty shekels.

    5 And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female.

    6 And if the person is from one month to five years old, then the value for a male will be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels.

    7 And for sixty years old and over, for a male the value will be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten.

  • 16 He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

  • 2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

  • 18 And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.

  • 21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • 17 Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

  • 31 Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

  • 16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

  • Deut 21:3-4
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    3 And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

    4 And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:

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    14 If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.

    15 If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.

  • 12 For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

  • 35 And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

  • 30 In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.

  • 12 And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.

  • 13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

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    11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

    12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

  • 4 If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

  • 20 A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.

  • 51 If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.