Exodus 21:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make restitution, giving money to its owner but keeping the dead animal.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ The owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the animal's owner, but the dead beast shall be his.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead beast shall be his.

Common English Bible

³⁴ the owner of the pit must make good on the loss. He should pay money to the ox’s owner, but he may keep the dead animal.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ then the owner of the cistern shall repay the price of the beasts, and what is dead will belong to him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Exodus 21:34 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:6

he shall restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had no pity.”

Exodus 21:33

“If someone leaves a pit open or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Exodus 21:35

“If someone’s ox hurts the ox of another, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the price of it, and the dead animal they shall also divide.

Exodus 22:14

“When someone borrows an animal from another and it is injured or dies, the owner not being present, full restitution shall be made.

Exodus 22:3

but if it happens after sunrise, bloodguilt is incurred.) The thief shall make full restitution or, if unable to do so, shall be sold for the theft.

Exodus 22:6

“When fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire shall make full restitution.

Proverbs 6:31

Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold; they will forfeit all the goods of their house.

Ezekiel 33:15

if the wicked restore the pledge, give back what they have taken by robbery, and walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity—they shall surely live; they shall not die.