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;
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Gill's Exposition
If a man shall open a pit,.... That has been dug in time past, and filled up again, or take the covering from it, and leave it uncovered: "or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it": a new one, in…
The usual mode of protecting a well in the East was probably then, as now, by building round it a low circular wall.
Adam Clarke
And if a man shall open a pit, or - dig a pit - That is, if a man shall open a well or cistern that had been before closed up, or dig a new one; for these two cases are plainly intimated: and if he…
Observe here,
I. The particular care which the law took of women with child, that no hurt should be done them which might occasion their mis-carrying. The law of nature obliges us to be very tender in…
Injury caused by culpable neglect in leaving an open pit.
open i.e. open a pit which already existed = reopen.
a pit for the storage of water or (cf. Jer 41:8; Thomson, L. and B.i. 89, 90, ii. 194,…
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