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22 "If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [or has a miscarriage] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
- New International Version
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Are pregnant women really hit accidentally that often, to have a rule and all?
I think the truth is that pregnant women are high maintenance. They have food cravings, complain of backaches, etc. And the husband hits the wife. It's terrible, but it happens.
And a scribe wants to keep the good favor of his patriarch, and that's what's mainly going on.
And a lot of the Bible is written in small parts which are put together later.
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And a miscarriage is an injury, for crying out loud!