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Exodus 21:18-23 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

18. “ ‘And if men quarrel and a man strikes his neighbor with a stone or with a fist and he does not die, but he is confined to bed,

19. if he stands and walks about in the outside on his staff, the striker will be unpunished; he will only pay for his inactivity toward his full recovery.”

20. And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged.

21. Yet if he survives a day or two days, he will not be avenged, because he is his money.

22. “ ‘And if men fight and they injure a pregnant woman, and her children go out and there is not serious injury, he will surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands concerning him and as the judges determine.

23. And if there is serious injury, you will give life in place of life,

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