Exodus 21:32

32 si servum ancillamque invaserit triginta siclos argenti dabit domino bos vero lapidibus opprimetur

Exodus 21:32 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 21:32

If the ox shall push a manservant, or a maidservant
Which the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi interpret of a Canaanitish servant, man or maid; but no doubt the same provision was made for an Hebrew servant, man or maid, as for a Gentile one:

he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver;
that is, the owner of the ox shall pay so much to the masters of the servants for the loss they have sustained by his ox goring them; and Maimonides ^F18 observes, that

``the ransom of servants, whether great or small, whether male or female, is fixed in the law, thirty shekels of good silver, whether the servant is worth a hundred pounds, or whether he is worth but a penny.''

This was the price our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was sold at, (See Gill on Matthew 26:15).

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Hilchot Niske Maimon, c. 11. sect. 1.

Exodus 21:32 In-Context

30 quod si pretium ei fuerit inpositum dabit pro anima sua quicquid fuerit postulatus

31 filium quoque et filiam si cornu percusserit simili sententiae subiacebit

32 si servum ancillamque invaserit triginta siclos argenti dabit domino bos vero lapidibus opprimetur

33 si quis aperuerit cisternam et foderit et non operuerit eam cecideritque bos vel asinus in eam

34 dominus cisternae reddet pretium iumentorum quod autem mortuum est ipsius erit