Exodus 21:24
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
In Context
23and if there is harm [to them], then you have given life for life,
25burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Cross References
Leviticus 24:19And when a man puts a blemish in his fellow, as he has done so it is done to him;
Judges 1:6And Adoni-Bezek flees, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes,
Matthew 5:38You heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth;
Luke 6:38Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they will give into your bosom; for with that measure with which you measure, it will be measured to you again.”
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 →