Exode 21:36

36 S'il est notoire qu'auparavant le bœuf avait accoutumé de heurter de sa corne, et que son maître ne l'ait point gardé, il devra rendre bœuf pour bœuf; mais le bœuf mort sera à lui.

Exode 21:36 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 21:36

Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past,
&c.] If it is a plain case, and a thing well known in the neighbourhood, and there are witnesses enough to testify it, that it has yesterday, and for two or three days running, pushed with his horns men and cattle, as they have come in his way, (See Gill on Exodus 21:29)

and his owner hath not kept him in;
took no care to prevent his doing mischief by putting him into a barn or out house, or into an enclosure, where he could do no damage to any:

he shall surely pay ox for ox;
that is, he shall give as good an ox to him, whose ox has been killed by his, as that was, or pay him the full worth and value of it: and the dead shall be his own; shall not be divided as in the preceding case, but shall be the proprietor's wholly, that is, the sufferer's; because the owner of the vicious ox took no care of him, though it was well known he was mischievous, for which negligence he was punished this way.

Exode 21:36 In-Context

34 Le maître de la fosse fera restitution; il rendra de l'argent à leur maître; mais ce qui est mort sera à lui.

35 Et si le bœuf de quelqu'un blesse le bœuf de son prochain, et qu'il en meure, ils vendront le bœuf vivant et en partageront l'argent, et ils partageront aussi le bœuf mort.

36 S'il est notoire qu'auparavant le bœuf avait accoutumé de heurter de sa corne, et que son maître ne l'ait point gardé, il devra rendre bœuf pour bœuf; mais le bœuf mort sera à lui.