Discovery BoxExodus 21:27 
Context21:27 If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant 1 go free as compensation for the tooth.
Exodus 21:32
Context21:32 If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner 2 must pay thirty shekels of silver, 3 and the ox must be stoned. 4
1 tn Heb “him”; the referent (the male or female servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the owner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 sn A shekel was a unit for measure by means of a scale. Both the weight and the value of a shekel of silver are hard to determine. “Though there is no certainty, the shekel is said to weigh about 11,5 grams” (C. Houtman, Exodus, 3:181). Over four hundred years earlier, Joseph was sold into Egypt for 20 shekels. The free Israelite citizen was worth about 50 shekels (Lev 27:3f.).
4 sn See further B. S. Jackson, “The Goring Ox Again [Ex. 21,28-36],” JJP 18 (1974): 55-94.
