Exodus 21:29

“But if the ox were wont to push with his horns in time past, etc.] Or “from or before yesterday, to the third” f663 that is, three days before, and had made three pushes, as Jarchi explains it: and it hath been testified to his owner; by sufficient witnesses, who saw him push at people for three days past: the Targum of Jonathan is, “and it hath been testified to the face of his owner three days.” Concerning this testimony Maimonides f664 thus writes, “this is a testification, all that testify of it three days; but if he pushes, or bites, or kicks, or strikes even an hundred times on one day, this is no testification (not a sufficient one): three companies of witnesses testify of it in one…”

“The animal was slain as a tribute to the sanctity of human life (Compare the marginal references and Genesis 4:11). It was stoned, and its flesh was treated as carrion. Guilty negligence on the part of its owner was reckoned a capital offence, to be commuted for a fine. In the case of a slave, the payment was the standard price of a slave, thirty shekels of silver. See Leviticus 25:44-46; Leviticus 27:3, and the marginal references for the New Testament application of this fact. return to 'Top of Page'”

“his owner also: Deu 21:1-9 Exodus 21:30”