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Exodus 21:27-36 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

27. Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.

28. If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

29. But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, an his owner also shall be put to death.

30. And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

31. If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.

32. If he assault a bondman or a bond woman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

33. If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,

34. The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

35. If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:

36. But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday and the day before, and his master did not keep him in: he shall pay ox for ox, and shall take the whole carcass.

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