Exodus 21:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If a ransom is imposed on the owner, then the owner shall pay whatever is imposed for the redemption of the victim’s life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If a ransom is put on [the man's] life, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

If the owner has to pay compensation instead, he must pay the agreed amount to save his life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But if they have imposed a price on him, he shall give, in exchange for his life, whatever is asked.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Exodus 21:30 Cross References

Exodus 21:22

“When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage and yet no further harm follows, the one responsible shall be fined what the woman’s husband demands, paying as much as the judges determine.

Exodus 21:29

If the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past and its owner has been warned but did not restrain 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

If it gores a boy or a girl, the owner shall be dealt with according to this same rule.

Exodus 30:12

“When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, at registration all of them shall give a ransom for their lives to the Lord, so that no plague may come upon them for being registered.

Proverbs 13:8

Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life, but a poor person pays no attention to a rebuke.