Exodus 21:30
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.
Exodus 21:30 in other translations
| BSB | If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him. |
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| WEB | If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed. |
| ASV | If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. |
| YLT | ‘If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him; |
| DARBY | If there be imposed on him a satisfaction, then he shall give the ransom of his life, according to what is imposed on him. |
| BBE | If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed. |
| Webster | If there shall be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him. |
What does Exodus 21:30 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 21:28-36
28-36. If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die--For the purpose of sanctifying human blood, and representing all injuries affecting life in a serious light, an animal that occasioned death was to be killed or suffer punishment proportioned to the degree of damage it had caused. Punishments are still inflicted on this principle in Persia and other countries of the East; and among a rude people greater effect is…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 21:22-36
The cases here mentioned give rules of justice then, and still in use, for deciding similar matters. We are taught by these laws, that we must be very careful to do no wrong, either directly or indirectly. If we have done wrong, we must be very willing to make it good, and be desirous that nobody may lose by us.
Exodus 21:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 21:30
- Exodus 21:22
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
- Exodus 30:12
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
- Numbers 35:31-33
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
- Proverbs 13:8
The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
22; 30:12; Nu 35:31-33; Pr 13:8
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Context
- Exodus 21:29
But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
- Exodus 21:30
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.
- Exodus 21:31
Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
Exodus 21:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si le fuere impuesto rescate, entonces dará por el rescate de su persona cuanto le fuere impuesto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et si une indemnité lui est imposée, il donnera la rançon de sa vie selon tout ce qui lui sera imposé. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn ihm eine Sühne auferlegt wird, so soll er das Lösegeld seines Lebens geben nach allem, was ihm auferlegt wird. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quod si pretium fuerit ei impositum, dabit pro anima sua quidquid fuerit postulatus. |