Exodus 21:30

WEB

³⁰If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.

KJV

³⁰If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

BSB

³⁰If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.

FBV

³⁰But if instead the payment of compensation is required, the owner may buy back his or her life by paying the full amount of compensation demanded.

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Extra References

Exodus 21:22

²²“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.

¹²“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD when you count them, that there be no plague among them when you count them.

Numbers 35:31-33

³¹“‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.

³²“‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

³³“‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Proverbs 13:8

⁸The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.