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Exodus 21:30

In 11 translations

BSB
If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
KJV
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.
WEB
If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
ASV
If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
LSV
If atonement is laid on him, then he has given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid on him;
YLT
'If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him;
DBY
If there be imposed on him a satisfaction, then he shall give the ransom of his life, according to what is imposed on him.
DRC
And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
GNV
If there be set to him a summe of mony, then he shall pay the raunsome of his life, whatsoeuer shalbe laied vpon him.
JPS
If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
LXXE
And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־כֹּ֖פֶר יוּשַׁ֣ת עָלָ֑יו וְנָתַן֙ פִּדְיֹ֣ן נַפְשׁ֔וֹ כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־יוּשַׁ֖ת עָלָֽיו׃
LXX-Br
Ἐὰν δὲ λύτρα ἐπιβληθῇ αὐτῷ, δώσει λύτρα τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ ὅσα ἐὰν ἐπιβάλωσιν αὐτῶ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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 35:31–33You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death. Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and…
  • Proverbs 13:8Riches may ransom a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat.

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