Verse 32
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 F18 Hilchot Niske Maimon, c. 11. sect. 1. 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 Matthew 26:15 .
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