The same price as a slave

Thirty shekels of silver was the price to be paid if a bull gored a slave. If a bull gored a son or a daughter, the owner of the bull could be redeemed by paying whatever was demanded. But a slave was worth just thirty shekels. This paltry amount was considered an insult later in Zechariah 11:12. In Matthew 26:15, it became the famous price paid for the betrayal of Jesus. He was sold for the same price as a slave.