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Personal Injury Laws

Exodus 21:33

In 11 translations

BSB
If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
KJV
¶ 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;
WEB
“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,
ASV
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,
LSV
And when a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey has fallen [in] there—
YLT
'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, —
DBY
— 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,
DRC
If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,
GNV
And when a man shall open a well, or when he shall dig a pit and couer it not, and an oxe or an asse fall therein,
JPS
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,
LXXE
And if any one open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall in there,

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְכִֽי־יִפְתַּ֨ח אִ֜ישׁ בּ֗וֹר א֠וֹ כִּֽי־יִכְרֶ֥ה אִ֛ישׁ בֹּ֖ר וְלֹ֣א יְכַסֶּ֑נּוּ וְנָֽפַל־שָׁ֥מָּה שּׁ֖וֹר א֥וֹ חֲמֽוֹר׃
LXX-Br
Ἐὰν δέ τις ἀνοίξῃ λάκκον ἢ λατομήσῃ λάκκον, καὶ μὴ καλύψῃ αὐτὸν, καὶ ἐμπέσῃ ἐκεῖ μόσχος ἢ ὄνος,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 119:85The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.
  • Psalms 9:15The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
  • Jeremiah 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
  • Proverbs 28:10He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
  • Jeremiah 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
  • Ecclesiastes 10:8He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.

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