Exodus 21:30
But if instead the payment of compensation is required, the owner may buy back his or her life by paying the full amount of compensation demanded.
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31If the ox uses its horns and kills a son or a daughter the same rule is applicable.
Cross References
Exodus 21:22If men who are fighting happen to hit a pregnant woman so she gives birth prematurely, but no serious injury occurs, he must be fined whatever amount the woman's husband demands and as permitted by the judges.
Numbers 35:31You are not to accept payment instead of executing a murderer who has been found guilty—they must be executed.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:23-36
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. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall… Read the whole commentary →