The animal was slain as a tribute to the sanctity of human life (compare the marginal references and Genesis 4:11). It was stoned, and its flesh wa…

Injuries to the person might arise either from man or from animals. Protection from both was needed. The law given to Noah (Genesis 9:5…

If there be laid on him a sum of money
By the decree of the judges, as Aben Ezra, or which the sanhedrim of Israel h…

The cases mentioned here give rules of justice that were applicable then and are still in use for deciding similar matters. These laws teach us tha…