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

³⁰ 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

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ 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)

³⁰ 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

³⁰ If the owner has to pay compensation instead, he must pay the agreed amount to save his life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ 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

³⁰ 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.