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Exodus 21:30-36 New Living Translation (NLT)

30. However, the dead person’s relatives may accept payment to compensate for the loss of life. The owner of the ox may redeem his life by paying whatever is demanded.

31. “The same regulation applies if the ox gores a boy or a girl.

32. But if the ox gores a slave, either male or female, the animal’s owner must pay the slave’s owner thirty silver coins, and the ox must be stoned.

33. “Suppose someone digs or uncovers a pit and fails to cover it, and then an ox or a donkey falls into it.

34. The owner of the pit must pay full compensation to the owner of the animal, but then he gets to keep the dead animal.

35. “If someone’s ox injures a neighbor’s ox and the injured ox dies, then the two owners must sell the live ox and divide the price equally between them. They must also divide the dead animal.

36. But if the ox had a reputation for goring, yet its owner failed to keep it under control, he must pay full compensation—a live ox for the dead one—but he may keep the dead ox.

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