Exodus 21:30 “If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by payin…”

Exodus 21:30

If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

World English Bible

If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.

American Standard Version

If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

Geneva Bible 1599

If there be set to him a summe of mony, then he shall pay the raunsome of his life, whatsoeuer shalbe laied vpon him.

Darby Translation

If there be imposed on him a satisfaction, then he shall give the ransom of his life, according to what is imposed on him.

Young's Literal Translation

'If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him;

Bible in Basic English

If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.

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Cross references

“for the ransom”

Exodus 21:22 Exodus 30:12 Numbers 35:31–33 Proverbs 13:8

Exodus 21:22 · BSB

If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.

Exodus 30:12 · BSB

“When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.

Numbers 35:31–33 · BSB

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

Proverbs 13:8 · BSB

Riches may ransom a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

29But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.

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