But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life,
The law shields pregnant women with tender care, the tree and fruit must not be destroyed together. God's providence protects those who fear Him in child-bearing. Yet mark this: the lex talionis belongs to magistrates and God's hand in providence, never to private revenge, which would make men like fishes of the sea, devouring one another.
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Commenting on Exodus 21:22-36
If death follows the blow, life for life is demanded. But the Jewish doctors rightly ask: should one who kills unwittingly pay with his own life? The law seems to allow redemption money for unpremeditated killing, though willful murder admits no satisfaction.
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A man who sells his daughter into servitude cannot sell her onward to another master. Either her owner or his son must take her as intended wife with fitting maintenance for her condition, or release her free at once.
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Commenting on Exodus 21:7-36