Quotes about Responsibility
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
— Exodus 21:22
But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
— Exodus 21:23
If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
— Exodus 21:26
And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
— Exodus 21:27
If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible.
— Exodus 21:28
But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.
— Exodus 21:29
If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
— Exodus 21:31
If the ox gores a manservant or maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.
— Exodus 21:32
If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
— Exodus 21:33
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.
— Exodus 21:34
If a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live one and divide the proceeds; they also must divide the dead animal.
— Exodus 21:35
But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.
— Exodus 21:36