Exodus 21:22 - Exposition

If men strive and hurt a woman. A chance hurt is clearly intended, not one done on purpose. So that her fruit depart from her . So that she be prematurely delivered of a dead child. And no mischief follow . "Mischief" here means "death," as in Genesis 42:4 , Genesis 42:38 ; Genesis 45:1-28 :29 . He shall pay as the judges determine . He was not to be wholly at the mercy of the injured father. If he thought the sum demanded was excessive, there was to be an appeal to a tribunal.