Leviticus 24:20

Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

In Context

19And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;

21He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:23But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,

Judges 1:7And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 24:11-23

The Blasphemy of Shelomith's Son; The Punishment of Shelomith's Son. ( b. c. 1490.) 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; 11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord , and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) 12 And they put him in ward, that the mind… Read the whole commentary →

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