Exode 21:30

30 Si on impose au maître un prix pour le rachat de sa vie, il paiera 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 boeuf frappe de ses cornes un homme ou une femme, et que la mort en soit la suite, le boeuf sera lapidé, sa chair ne sera point mangée, et le maître du boeuf ne sera point puni.

29 Mais si le boeuf était auparavant sujet à frapper, et qu'on en ait averti le maître, qui ne l'a point surveillé, le boeuf sera lapidé, dans le cas où il tuerait un homme ou une femme, et son maître sera puni de mort.

30 Si on impose au maître un prix pour le rachat de sa vie, il paiera tout ce qui lui sera imposé.

31 Lorsque le boeuf frappera un fils ou une fille, cette loi recevra son application;

32 mais si le boeuf frappe un esclave, homme ou femme, on donnera trente sicles d'argent au maître de l'esclave, et le boeuf sera lapidé.