21:33 “If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
23:4 “If you encounter 1 your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return 2 it to him.
34:19 “Every firstborn of the womb 3 belongs to me, even every firstborn 4 of your cattle that is a male, 5 whether ox or sheep.
1 tn Heb “meet” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).
2 tn The construction uses the imperfect tense (taken here as an obligatory imperfect) and the infinitive absolute for emphasis.
3 tn Heb “everything that opens the womb.”
4 tn Here too: everything that “opens [the womb].”
5 tn The verb basically means “that drops a male.” The verb is feminine, referring to the cattle.