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If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
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Risk, Rent, and Responsibility
Commentators explain this verse distinguishes between borrowing and hiring. If an owner is present when their borrowed animal is harmed, they bear the loss because they can supervise. For a hired animal, the rental fee is understood to include the price of the risk. The hirer is not liable for accidental loss because the owner was compensated for that possibility through the fee.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
It came for his hire- The sum paid for hiring was regarded as covering the risk of accident.
19th Century
Anglican
Lending is a species of deposit; but for the benefit, not of the depositor, but of the borrower. The obligation of the latter to keep intact and to…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But if the owner thereof be with it When it is hurt or dies; for in some cases the owner might go along with his bea…
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