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Exodus 21:32

Exodus 21:32

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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 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 "Mt 26:15". Hilchot Niske Maimon, c. 11. sect.

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