Exodus 21:32
If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
The verse belongs to the instruction given through Moses to guard against injustice and to guide how people deal with one another, and it remains instruction to be studied and obeyed. It is part of the statutes and judgments given to Israel, including special directions that guarded the interests of His people and addressed the poor, and these requirements are exalted and not of a lower order than present-day statutes. It holds an owner accountable for harm caused by a dangerous ox that pushes a manservant or a maidservant.
It fixes thirty shekels of silver, about £3 10s., as the price of a slave. For that slave's price Judas sold Jesus, the Lord of glory, to shame and death, because a fostered love of money grew into avarice until it became the ruling motive of his life and outweighed his love for Christ.
Judas held to his purpose unchanged after reflecting on it since the feast at Simon's house, and a little before the Passover renewed his bargain with the priests to deliver Jesus at a resort for meditation and prayer. He betrayed Jesus with a kiss in Gethsemane. By becoming the slave of one vice, he gave himself to Satan to be driven to any length in sin. The verse's principle applies to the liquor seller: knowing that liquor leads to violence and death, the seller is morally responsible for the harm it causes, even when the person who commits the crime is the one punished by human law.