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. 23 But if there is any further injury, (B)then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, 24 (C)eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, [d]bruise for bruise.

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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
  4. Exodus 21:25 Lit welt

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