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Originally Posted by JMS
Ecclesiastes 6:3 (King James Version)
"If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he."
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This is describing a sentiment, and not a law. "Untimely birth" is a way of saying, "its better if he wasn't born". Or to put it another way, "it would be better if his parents never got together." It isn't advocating abortion.
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Originally Posted by JMS
Exodus 21:22-25 (King James Version)
"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."
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This passage is describing a law. What this passage is saying is: If two guys get into a fight, and that fight spills into the kitchen. And a man's wife is in the kitchen, and she gets hurt because of the fight, and looses her baby. The husband can bring suit against him for whatever he may ask. And the judges, if they side with him, will grant him his wish.
Kinda puts new meaning to the words, "Take it out-side!"
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