Deuteronomy 19:21
Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Exodus 21:24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Leviticus 24:17And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:13Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 19:15-21
False Witnesses. ( b. c. 1451.) 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is… Read the whole commentary →