Exodus 21:34 meaning and explanation
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.
Exodus 21:34, Berean Standard Bible
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In context, God through Moses is giving Israel case laws for a settled farming community. Verse 33 imagines a man who digs or opens a cistern and leaves it uncovered, so a neighbor's ox or donkey falls in and dies.
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