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Let him that is the owner of an ox which pusheth with his horn,
kill him: but if he pushes and gores any one in the thrashing-floor, let
him be put to death by stoning, and let him not be thought fit for food:
but if his owner be convicted as having known what his nature was, and
hath not kept him up, let him also be put to death, as being the occasion
of the ox's having killed a man. But if the ox have killed a man-servant,
or a maid-servant, let him be stoned; and let the owner of the ox pay thirty
shekels 1
to the master of him that was slain; but if it be an ox that is thus smitten
and killed, let both the oxen, that which smote the other and that which
was killed, be sold, and let the owners of them divide their price between
them.
1 We may here note, that thirty shekels, the price our Savior was sold for by Judas to the Jews, Matthew 26:15, and 27;3, was the old value of a bought servant or slave among that people.
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