The third time the expression appears is at Exodus 21:22-25, where we read: “In case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman

In this case the sacredness of life was again stressed. Two lives, or possibly more, were involved​—the woman and her child or children. The man who was not her husband pushed her violently or struck her. There was great disregard for life here, and the man might strike the woman out of a vicious desire to hurt the husband. If the woman or her offspring, or both, died or were seriously injured, the man would incur the penalty prescribed.