Exodus 21
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Exodus 21:22-23

22“Now if people struggle with each other and strike a pregnant woman so that 1she gives birth prematurely, but there is no injury, the guilty person shall certainly be fined as the woman’s husband 2may demand of him, and he shall 3pay 4as the judges decide.

23But if there is any further injury, 5then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,

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Notes

  1. 1. Exodus 21:22 Or an untimely birth occurs; lit her children come out ↩
  2. 2. Exodus 21:22 Lit lays on him ↩
  3. 3. Exodus 21:22 Ex 21:30; Deut 22:18, 19 ↩
  4. 4. Exodus 21:22 Lit by arbitration ↩
  5. 5. Exodus 21:23 Lev 24:19; Deut 19:21 ↩

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