Exodus 21:23

and if there is harm [to them], then you have given life for life,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

In Context

22And when men strive, and have struck a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no harm [to them], he is certainly fined as the husband of the woman lays on him, and he has given through the judges;

24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

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Cross References

Leviticus 24:20breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he puts a blemish in a man so it is done in him.

Deuteronomy 19:21And your eye does not pity—life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”

Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:23-36

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall… Read the whole commentary →

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