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Deuteronomy 19:21

And your eye does not pity—life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

In Context

20and those who are left hear and fear, and do not add to do according to this evil thing in your midst anymore.

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Cross References

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

Leviticus 24:17And when a man strikes any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.

Deuteronomy 19:13your eye has no pity on him, and you have put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with 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 →

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