The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 21:28

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The ox shall be surely stoned. He shall suffer the same death that would have been the portion of a human murderer. His flesh shall not be eaten. The animal was regarded as accursed, and therefore, as a matter of course, no Hebrew might eat of it.

According to the Rabbinical commentators, it was not even lawful to sell the carcase to Gentiles. The owner shall be quit—i.e; "shall be liable to no punishment."

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