'Ransom' in the Bible

If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

"When you take a census of the Israelites according to their number, then each man is to pay a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

If, however, it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value.

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.

Or 'Deliver me from the enemy's power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me'?

and if God is gracious to him and says, 'Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,'

Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price

(the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),

The ransom of a person's life is his wealth, but the poor person hears no threat.

The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless are taken in the place of the upright.

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God's purpose at his appointed time.