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Exodus 21:33-36

The good news is that we are finishing another chapter in Exodus today. Congrats!! The bad news is that the animals are still fighting. Elohim (God) is giving people the rules for when their animals get harmed by someone leaving an open pit, causing harm to his neighbor's dumb ox who fell into it. Then we will go over the other rules as you will see.

So, in the above case, the day starts out, in its simplest form, with two neighbors each with a donkey or ox. One digs a pit, goes to get a beer, and his neighbor's animal falls in and dies. The pit digger keeps the dead animal and the other neighbor gets the live animal.

A similar kind of situation happens if one animal butts the other and it dies. This time, they must sell the live animal and split the cash. After that, they also split the meat an skin of the dead animal. Seems fair. But if the attacking beast is known for doing those kinds of things and its owner did not "keep it in", however he might do that, the not-keeper-inner neighbor has to pay ox for ox or donkey for donkey, but he keeps the dead animal since he has paid for it.

In the instance of a pit left open or uncovered and an ox or a donkey falls into it, its like a forced purchase of a dead animal for the pit owner. It is almost the same if that pit digger had one of his animal killed by his carelessness.

Counting the rules past 'ten'.

Our General list is up to 32.
And our Strict list is at 69.

Today's Reading

English

"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, the owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.

"When one man's ox butts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they shall share. Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall repay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.

Hebrew

Next week, buglers get sold...

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