New English Translation
Exodus 21:33
33“If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Exodus 21:33 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
- New International Version (NIV)“If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,
Context of Exodus 21:33
31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule. 32If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned. “If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to its owner, and the dead animal will become his. 35If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, and they will also divide the dead ox.
Read all of Exodus 21Exodus 21:33 word by word
וְכִֽי־יִפְתַּ֨ח אִ֜ישׁ בּ֗וֹר א֠וֹ כִּֽי־יִכְרֶ֥ה אִ֛ישׁ בֹּ֖ר וְלֹ֣א יְכַסֶּ֑נּוּ וְנָֽפַל־שָׁ֥מָּה שּׁ֖וֹר א֥וֹ חֲמֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Exodus 21:33
- Psalms 9:15The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.
- Psalms 119:85The arrogant dig pits to trap me, which violates your law.
- Proverbs 28:10The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
- Ecclesiastes 10:8One who digs a pit may fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- Jeremiah 18:20Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.
Commentaries on Exodus 21:33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 33And if a man shall open a pit, or - dig a pit - That is, if a man shall open a well or cistern that had been before closed up, or dig a new one; for these two cases are plainly intimated: and if he did this in some public place where there was danger that men or cattle might fall into it; for a man might do as he pleased in his own grounds, as those were his private right. In the above case, if he had neglected to cover the pit, and his neighbor's ox or…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 33The usual mode of protecting a well in the East was probably then, as now, by building round it a low circular wall.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 22-36Verses 22-36 The cases here mentioned give rules of justice then, and still in use, for deciding similar matters. We are taught by these laws, that we must be very careful to do no wrong, either directly or indirectly. If we have done wrong, we must be very willing to make it good, and be desirous that nobody may lose by us.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 33-37In cases involving loss of property, the responsible person had to pay compensation equal to the value of what was lost. If the person had actually stolen the property, the compensation was multiplied (22:1, 4, 7). Where there was a question of responsibility, the parties were to appear before God for adjudication (22:8). The means by which the judgment was reached is not reported.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 28-3628-36. If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die--For the purpose of sanctifying human blood, and representing all injuries affecting life in a serious light, an animal that occasioned death was to be killed or suffer punishment proportioned to the degree of damage it had caused. Punishments are still inflicted on this principle in Persia and other countries of the East; and among a rude people greater effect is thus produced in inspiring caution, and…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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