כּוֹפֶר

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.