Exodus 21:31
in Exodus 21If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
KJV
Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
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This verse in Exodus 21
Commentary
3 notes on this verseWhether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,.... A little son or daughter, and both Israelites, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra; this is observed, because only a man or woman are made mention of in Exo 21:29 persons grown up; and lest it should be thought that only adult persons were intended, this is added, to show that the same regard is had to little ones as to grown persons, should they suffer by an ox in like manner as men and women may.
This site's exposition
If payment is demanded of him instead
on Exodus 21:30-31
The negligent owner “may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him”. This is the one capital sentence in the chapter that may be bought off. Verse 31 applies the same rule to a gored son or daughter.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die--For the purpose of sanctifying human blood, and representing all injuries affecting life in a serious light, an animal that occasioned death was to be killed or suffer punishment proportioned to the degree of damage it had caused.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אוֹ־ | ʾov- | or | H176 → | 321 times |
| בֵ֥ן | ven | a son | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִגָּ֖ח | yigach | it will gore | H5055 → | 11 times |
| אוֹ־ | ʾov- | or | H176 → | 321 times |
| בַ֣ת | vat | a daughter | H1323 → | 588 times |
| יִגָּ֑ח | yigach | it will gore | H5055 → | 11 times |
| כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֥ט | kamishpat | according to the judgment | H4941 → | 422 times |
| הַזֶּ֖ה | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| יֵעָ֥שֶׂה | yeaseh | it will be done | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| לּֽוֹ׃ | lo | to <the> him |
אוֹ־or
ʾov-H176 →321 times
בֵ֥ןa son
venH1121 →4930 times
יִגָּ֖חit will gore
yigachH5055 →11 times
אוֹ־or
ʾov-H176 →321 times
בַ֣תa daughter
vatH1323 →588 times
יִגָּ֑חit will gore
yigachH5055 →11 times
כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֥טaccording to the judgment
kamishpatH4941 →422 times
הַזֶּ֖ה<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
יֵעָ֥שֶׂהit will be done
yeasehH6213 →2628 times
לּֽוֹ׃to <the> him
lo
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.