Exode 21:30

30 Si on lui impose un prix pour se racheter, il donnera en rançon de sa vie tout ce qui lui sera imposé.

Exode 21:30 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 21:30

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 ^F17 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.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Hilchot Niske Mammon, c. 11. sect. 1, 2.

Exode 21:30 In-Context

28 Si un bœuf heurte de sa corne un homme ou une femme, qui en meure, le bœuf sera lapidé, et l'on ne mangera point sa chair, et le maître du bœuf sera absous.

29 Mais si auparavant le bœuf avait accoutumé de heurter de sa corne, et que son maître en ait été averti, et qu'il ne l'ait point surveillé, et qu'il tue un homme ou une femme, le bœuf sera lapidé, et son maître aussi sera mis à mort.

30 Si on lui impose un prix pour se racheter, il donnera en rançon de sa vie tout ce qui lui sera imposé.

31 Si le bœuf heurte de sa corne un fils ou une fille, on le traitera selon cette même loi.

32 Si le bœuf heurte de sa corne un esclave, soit homme, soit femme, le possesseur du bœuf donnera trente sicles d'argent à son maître, et le bœuf sera lapidé.