KJV 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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
WEB World English Bible
If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.
ASV 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.
YLT 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;
Surrounding context — Exodus 21
27 And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit.
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.
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.
31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
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.
33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
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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].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.Numbers 35:31-33Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which [is] guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.Proverbs 13:8The ransom of a man’s life [are] his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
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