The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
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Gill's Exposition
The owner of the pit shall make it good,.... Repair the loss of the ox or ass:
and give the money unto the owner of them: the price of them, what they are worth: the Targum of Jonathan is,"the owner…
The usual mode of protecting a well in the East was probably then, as now, by building round it a low circular wall.
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…
Cambridge Bible
Having paid the value of the dead animal to the owner, he is naturally at liberty to keep the carcase himself. The carcase would be of value for its hide: but though -that which died of itself" was…