Éxodo 21:30

30 »Si a cambio de su vida se le exige algún pago, deberá pagarlo.

Éxodo 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.

Éxodo 21:30 In-Context

28 »Si un toro cornea y mata a un hombre o a una mujer, se matará al toro a pedradas y no se comerá su carne. En tal caso, no se hará responsable al dueño del toro.

29 »Si el toro tiene la costumbre de cornear, se le matará a pedradas si llega a matar a un hombre o a una mujer. Si su dueño sabía de la costumbre del toro, pero no lo mantuvo sujeto, también será condenado a muerte.

30 »Si a cambio de su vida se le exige algún pago, deberá pagarlo.

31 »Esta misma ley se aplicará en caso de que el toro cornee a un muchacho o a una muchacha.

32 »Si el toro cornea a un esclavo o a una esclava, el dueño del toro deberá pagarle treinta monedas de plata al amo del esclavo o de la esclava. El toro será apedreado.