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Exodus 21:30
Exodus 21:30 is verse 30 of Exodus chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
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.
World English Bible
If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
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Exodus 21:28–32 · Berean Standard Bible
28 If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible.
29 But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.
30 If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
31 If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
32 If the ox gores a manservant or maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 21:22If 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.
Exodus 30:12“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.
Numbers 35:31You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:32Nor 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.
Numbers 35:33Do 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.
Proverbs 13:8Riches may ransom a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat.