Exodus 21:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

child... so. Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6); supply "who intervenes".

punished. amerced, or fined. The laws of Khammurabi distinguished between three classes (§§209, 211, 213). Here it is any woman. See App-15.

Exodus 21:22

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.