The Husband Sets the Penalty for the Injured Wife

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 335:9

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"As the woman's husband shall lay upon him" (Exodus 21:22): Scripture comes to teach that the injury done to the woman belongs to her husband, and the value of the lost offspring belongs to the husband. And anyone who is liable to death is exempt from monetary payments.

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