The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 21:22

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

If men strive and hurt a woman. A chance hurt is clearly intended, not one done on purpose. So that her fruit depart from her. So that she be prematurely delivered of a dead child. And no mischief follow.

"Mischief" here means "death," as in Genesis 42:4, Genesis 42:38; Genesis 45:1-28 :29. He shall pay as the judges determine. He was not to be wholly at the mercy of the injured father. If he thought the sum demanded was excessive, there was to be an appeal to a tribunal.

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