Sexual intercourse wasn't not a prerequisite for initiating this trial.
In fact, if there were witnesses to the wife's adultery, she was disqualified from the trial entirely, even if she was pregnant with her paramour’s child. The ritual existed only for cases of unresolved suspicion, not proven defilement, or the termination of an illegitimate child.
As outlined in the Bible, Torah, Septuagint, Vulgate, Mishnah, and Talmud, the Sotah Ritual never addressed pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, abortifacients, or mamzerim. It is a divine ritual to test suspected adultery, not a procedure concerning illegitimate conception or termination of a preborn mamzer.
A guilty verdict did not cause the death of an unborn child, because the law itself did not include or rely upon fetal death. If found guilty through the bitter water, the wife was divinely cursed with infertility and physical affliction. If innocent, the wife was publicly and divinely declared innocent and received a fertility-related blessing.
Mosaic Law never targeted fetal death as a punishment for adultery.
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@hell_line0@Buick_Willis Also back in bibical times an abortion was a solider cutting the mothers belly open to kill her and the Babby. Also According to the Bible Life starts with the first Breath aka Birth. What we have now never existed 2000k years ago.
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The Mosaic Law of Retribution never treated the image bearer in the womb as mere property that can be discarded, and never permitted us to end their lives.
The Bible never states that image bearers of God lack human life in the womb or that their biological existence begins with their first breath of oxygen after birth.
@KWillard87244@SavvyTamz_57 The Bible never states that image bearers of God lack human life in the womb or that their biological existence begins with their first breath of oxygen after birth.