f what he hath suffered, and
permits him to estimate it, unless he will be more severe.

36. Let him that is the owner of an ox which pusheth with his horn, kill
him: but if he pushes and gores any one in the thrashing-floor, let him
be put to death by stoning, and let him not be thought fit for food: but
if his owner be convicted as having known what his nature was, and hath
not kept him up, let him also be put to death, as being the occasion of
the ox's having killed a man. But if the ox have killed a man-servant,
or a maid-servant, let him be stoned; and let the owner of the ox pay
thirty shekels [31] to the master of him that was slain; but if it be an
ox that is thus smitten and killed, let both the oxen, that which smote
the other and that which was killed, be sold, and let the owners of them
divide their price between them.

37. Let those that dig a well or a pit be careful to lay planks over
them, and so keep them shut up, not in order to hinder any persons from
drawing water, but that there may be no danger of falling into them.
But if any one's beast fall into such a well or pit thus digged, and
not shut up, and perish, let the owner pay its price to the owner of the
beast. Let there be a battlement round the tops of your houses instead
of a wall, that may prevent any persons from rolling down and perishing.

38. Let him that has received any thing in trust for another, take
care to keep it as a sacred and divine thing; and let no one invent any
contrivance whereby to deprive him that hath intrusted it with him of
the same, and this whether he be a man or a woman; no, not although he
or she were to gain an immense sum of gold, and this where he cannot be
convicted of it by any body; for it is fit that a man's own conscience,
which knows what he hath, should in all cases oblige him to do well.
Let this conscience be his witness, and make him always act so as may
procure him commendation from others; but let him chiefly have regard
to God, from whom no wicked man can lie concealed: but if he in whom
the trust was reposed, without any deceit of his own, lose what he was
intrusted withal, let him come before the seven judges, and swear by God
that nothing hath been lost willingly, or with a wicked intention, and
that he hath not made use of any part thereof, and so let him depart
without blame; but if he hath made use of the least part of what was
committed to him, and it be lost, let him be condemned to repay al