This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter. The law explicitly extends to children — they are not lesser persons under the covenant law. The goring bull case applies equally when the victim is a child. The specificity is the law's way of preventing the argument that the child's lower social status reduces the owner's liability. Every person — man, woman, son, daughter — has equal standing before the injury law. Matthew 18:5 records Jesus saying whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me — the equal dignity of children under the law is a precursor to Jesus' elevation of children as the model of kingdom belonging.

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