The Code of Hammurabi and the Bible

209. If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.

210. If the woman die, his daughter shall be put to death.

211. If a woman of the free class lose her child by a blow, he shall pay five shekels in money.

212. If this woman die, he shall pay half a mina.

213. If he strike the maid-servant of a man, and she lose her child, he shall pay two shekels in money.

214. If this maid-servant die, he shall pay one-third of a mina.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp


Exodus 21:22

Easy-to-Read Version



22 “Two men might be fighting and hurt a pregnant woman. This might make the woman give birth to her baby before its time. If the woman was not hurt badly, the man who hurt her must pay a fine. The woman’s husband will decide how much the man must pay. The judges will help the man decide how much the fine will be.

This thread is not about abortion for the simple reason the woman did not go to a doctor to have a baby murdered.

It simply shows that similar laws existed in the ANE.

With Jesus ALL things have become new.

1771, BCE, code of hammurabi

The Book of Exodus was written between 1440 and 1400 B.C.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Exodus.html

That is based on the date of the exodus. I think it is hard press for a critic to say Moses copied from Hammurabi. But, the two texts demonstrates that the Law Moses wrote is in line with ANE culture and Laws. It would be a good proof that the OT is historical.

And it may also reveal we have yet to find the oldest evidence of either.
That is what I gleaned for a British National Museum teaching on such events.