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Leviticus 24:19

If anyone injures someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:

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In The King James Version

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

In Context

18Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a life.

20a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Whatever way they injured the victim, the same must be done to them.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:24an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,

Deuteronomy 19:21Don't show any mercy. The rule is life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

Matthew 5:38You've heard that the law said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’

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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