Exodus 21:28
Good News Translation
"If a bull gores someone to death, it is to be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but its owner is not to be punished.

New Revised Standard Version
When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.

Contemporary English Version
A bull that kills someone with its horns must be killed and its meat destroyed, but the owner of the bull isn't responsible for the death.

New American Bible
When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned; its meat may not be eaten. The owner of the ox, however, shall be free of blame.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

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Exodus 21:32 If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

Genesis 9:5,6 For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. . . .

Leviticus 20:15,16 He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall kill. . . .

Context
Personal Injury Laws
27Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free. 28If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.29But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.…
Cross References
Genesis 9:5
For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

Exodus 21:27
Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.

Exodus 21:29
But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:32
If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

Exodus 21:27
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