Exodus 21:30
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New International Version (©1984)
However, if payment is demanded of him, he may redeem his life by paying whatever is demanded.

New Living Translation (©2007)
However, the dead person's relatives may accept payment to compensate for the loss of life. The owner of the ox may redeem his life by paying whatever is demanded.

English Standard Version (©2001)
If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
However, if only a cash settlement is demanded from the owner, the bull's owner may save his life by paying whatever price is demanded of him.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid on him.

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.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

Darby Bible 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.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

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.

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;

Geneva Study Bible

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

(u) By the next of the kindred of him that is so slain.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

30. If there be laid on him a sum of money, &c.-Blood fines are common among the Arabs as they were once general throughout the East. This is the only case where a money compensation, instead of capital punishment, was expressly allowed in the Mosaic law.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 21:29 "If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.
Exodus 21:31 "Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule. (NASB ©1995)

Atonement Demanded Fixed However Imposed Laid Money Paying Payment Price Ransom Redeem Redemption Satisfaction Sum Whatever Whatsoever


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.

for the ransom Ex 21:22 30:12 Nu 35:31-33 Pr 13:8

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