22If 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.
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And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; …
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-36)Observe here, I. The particular care which the law took of women with child, that no hurt should be done them which might occasion their mis-carrying. The law of nature obliges us to be very tender in that case, lest the tree and fruit be destroyed together, Exod. 21:22 , 23 . Women with child, who are thus taken under the special protection of the law of God, if they live in his fear, may still b…
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