Exodus 21:22

World English Bible (2000)

"If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 22:18-19 : 18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; 19 and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
  • Exod 21:30 : 30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:23-26
    4 verses
    87%

    23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

    24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

    25burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

    26"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

  • Exod 21:18-21
    4 verses
    77%

    18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

    19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

    20"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

    21Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

  • Exod 21:30-31
    2 verses
    72%

    30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

    31Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

  • Deut 25:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

    12then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

  • Exod 21:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

    11If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

    12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

    13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

  • Deut 22:18-26
    9 verses
    70%

    18The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

    19and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

    20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

    21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

    23If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

    24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    25But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

    26but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

  • Lev 24:18-21
    4 verses
    70%

    18He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

    19If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

    21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Num 5:31
    69%

    31The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'"

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    69%

    35"If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

    36Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Deut 25:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

    2and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Deut 28:56
    69%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Exod 21:28
    69%

    28"If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

  • Num 5:27-28
    2 verses
    68%

    27When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.

    28If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

  • Num 5:13
    68%

    13and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;

  • Deut 19:21
    68%

    21Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Job 31:11
    67%

    11For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  • Exod 22:16-17
    2 verses
    67%

    16"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

    17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Exod 22:14
    67%

    14"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Hos 13:13
    67%

    13The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.

  • Num 35:22
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    22"'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

  • Gen 3:16
    67%

    16To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

  • Num 5:20
    66%

    20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

  • Exod 21:15
    66%

    15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

  • Deut 22:14
    66%

    14and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"