Êxodo 21:30

30 Se lhe for imposto resgate, então dará como redenção da sua vida tudo quanto lhe for imposto;

Êxodo 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.

Êxodo 21:30 In-Context

28 Se um boi escornear um homem ou uma mulher e este morrer, certamente será apedrejado o boi e a sua carne não se comerá; mas o dono do boi será absolvido.

29 Mas se o boi dantes era escorneador, e o seu dono, tendo sido disso advertido, não o guardou, o boi, matando homem ou mulher, será apedrejado, e também o seu dono será morto.

30 Se lhe for imposto resgate, então dará como redenção da sua vida tudo quanto lhe for imposto;

31 quer tenha o boi escorneado a um filho, quer a uma filha, segundo este julgamento lhe será feito.

32 Se o boi escornear um servo, ou uma serva, dar-se-á trinta siclos de prata ao seu senhor, e o boi será apedrejado.