Exodus 21:30
Good News Translation
However, if the owner is allowed to pay a fine to save his life, he must pay the full amount required.

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

Contemporary English Version
However, you may save your own life by paying whatever fine is demanded.

New American Bible
If, however, a fine is imposed on him, he must pay in ransom for his life whatever amount is imposed on him.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

for the ransom

Exodus 21:22 If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.

Exodus 30:12 When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.

Numbers 35:31-33 You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith. . . .

Proverbs 13:8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but he that is poor, beareth not reprehension.

Context
Personal Injury Laws
29But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 30And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.31If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:22
If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.

Exodus 21:29
But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:31
If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.

Exodus 21:29
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