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

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:22 Or an untimely birth occurs; lit her children come out
  2. Exodus 21:22 Lit lays on him
  3. Exodus 21:22 Lit by arbitration

22 “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely[a] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands(A) and the court allows.

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  1. Exodus 21:22 Or she has a miscarriage