Parallel Verses
Amplified
“If a man leaves a pit open, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
New American Standard Bible
“If a man opens a pit, or
King James Version
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;
Holman Bible
“When a man uncovers a pit or digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
International Standard Version
If a man opens a pit or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey falls into it,
A Conservative Version
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,
American Standard Version
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,
Bible in Basic English
If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;
Darby Translation
And if a man open a pit, or if a man dig a pit, and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall into it,
Julia Smith Translation
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass:
King James 2000
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey fall in it;
Lexham Expanded Bible
" 'If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and he does not cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Modern King James verseion
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 falls in it,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"If a man open a well or dig a pit and cover it not, but that an ox or an ass fall therein,
NET Bible
"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,
New Heart English Bible
"If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
The Emphasized Bible
And when a man openeth a pit, or when a man diggeth a pit, and doth not cover it, - and there falleth thereinto an ox or an ass,
Webster
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 shall fall into it;
World English Bible
"If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
Youngs Literal Translation
And when a man doth open a pit, or when a man doth dig a pit, and doth not cover it, and an ox or ass hath fallen thither, --
Themes
Bullock (ox) » Laws concerning » Trespass by
Livestock » Laws concerning livestock
Property » Personal » Laws concerning trespass of, and violence to
Restitution » To be made for injury to life, limb, or property
Interlinear
Pathach
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 21:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws About Personal Injury
32 If the ox gores a male or a female servant, the owner shall give to the servant’s master thirty shekels of silver [the purchase price for a slave], and the ox shall be stoned. 33 “If a man leaves a pit open, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34 the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to the animal’s owner, but the dead [animal] shall be his.
Cross References
Psalm 9:15
The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
Psalm 119:85
The arrogant (godless) have dug pits for me,
Men who do not conform to Your law.
Proverbs 28:10
He who leads the upright astray on an evil path
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.
Ecclesiastes 10:8
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.
Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember [with compassion] that I stood before You
To speak good on their behalf,
To turn Your anger away from them.
Jeremiah 18:22
Let an outcry be heard from their houses
When You suddenly bring [a troop of] raiders upon them,
For they have dug a pit to capture me
And have hidden snares for my feet.