Exodus 21:30

If a payment is required for his life, he must pay whatever he is required to pay.

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In The 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.

In Context

29But if the ox had a habit of goring in the past, and its owner was warned but did not keep it in, and the ox has killed a man or a woman, that ox must be stoned, and its owner also must be put to death.

31If the ox has gored a man's son or daughter, the ox's owner must do what this decree requires him to do.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:22If men fight together and hurt a pregnant woman so that she miscarries, but there is no other injury to her, then the guilty man must surely be fined as the woman's husband demands it from him, and he must pay as the judges determine.

Numbers 35:31Also, you must not accept ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of murder. He must certainly be put to death.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:23-36

22 If 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. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall… Read the whole commentary →

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