Exodus 21:30
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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.If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
In other translations
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.If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
Hebrew words
אִם־'im-ifH518כֹּפֶרkofera ransomH3724יוּשַׁתyushatit will be imposedH7896עָלָיו'alavon himH5921וְנָתַןvenatanand he will giveH5414פִּדְיֹןpidyon[the] ransom ofH6306נַפְשׁוֹnafsholife hisH5315כְּכֹלkekholaccording to allH3605אֲשֶׁר־'asher-thatH834יוּשַׁתyushatit will be imposedH7896עָלָיו׃'alavon himH5921
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Related verses
- Exodus 21:22If 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.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.
- Numbers 35:31-3331 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. 32 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. 33 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.31 You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death. 32 Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest. 33 Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
- Exodus 30:12When 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.“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.
- Proverbs 13:8The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.Riches may ransom a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat.
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