Bible Cross References
for the ransom
Exodus 21:22
"If some men are fighting and hurt a pregnant woman so that she loses her child, but she is not injured in any other way, the one who hurt her is to be fined whatever amount the woman's husband demands, subject to the approval of the judges.
Exodus 30:12
"When you take a census of the people of Israel, each man is to pay me a price for his life, so that no disaster will come on him while the census is being taken.
Numbers 35:31-33
31
Murderers must be put to death. They cannot escape this penalty by the payment of money.
32
If they have fled to a city of refuge, do not allow them to make a payment in order to return home before the death of the High Priest.
33
If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.
Proverbs 13:8
The rich have to use their money to save their lives, but no one threatens the poor.