Éxodo 21:30

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Si le fuere impuesto rescate, entonces dará por el rescate de su persona cuanto le fuere impuesto.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Si se le impone precio de rescate, entonces dará por la redención de su vida lo que se demande de él.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Si le fuere impuesto rescate, entonces dará por el rescate de su persona cuanto le fuere impuesto.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Si le fuere impuesto rescate, entonces dará por el rescate de su persona cuanto le fuere impuesto.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for the ransom: Exodus 21:22, Exodus 30:12, Numbers 35:31-33, Proverbs 13:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:34 - General 1 Kings 20:39 - or else

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If there be laid on him a sum of money,.... By the decree of the judges, as Aben Ezra, or which the sanhedrim of Israel have laid upon him; if his sentence of death is commuted for a fine, with the consent of the relations of the deceased, who in such a case are willing to show mercy, and take a fine instead of the person's death; supposing it was through carelessness and negligence, and not with any ill design that he did not keep up his ox from doing damage, after he had notice:

then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever, is laid upon him; whatever mulct or fine he is amerced with by the court, instead of the sentence of death first pronounced. Of this ransom Maimonides q thus writes:

"the ransom is according as the judges consider what is the price (or value) of him that is slain; (i.e. according to his rank, whether a noble or common man, a free man or a servant) all is according to the estimation of him that is slain.--To whom do they give the ransom? to the heirs of the slain; and if a woman is killed, the ransom is given to the heirs of her father's (family), and not to her husband.''

q Hilchot Niske Mammon, c. 11. sect. 1, 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The animal was slain as a tribute to the sanctity of human life (Compare the marginal references and Genesis 4:11). It was stoned, and its flesh was treated as carrion. Guilty negligence on the part of its owner was reckoned a capital offence, to be commuted for a fine.

In the case of a slave, the payment was the standard price of a slave, thirty shekels of silver. See Leviticus 25:44-46; Leviticus 27:3, and the marginal references for the New Testament application of this fact.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 21:30. If there be laid on him a sum of money - the ransom of his life — So it appears that, though by the law he forfeited his life, yet this might be commuted for a pecuniary mulct, at which the life of the deceased might be valued by the magistrates.