Leviticus 24:20
breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he puts a blemish in a man so it is done in him.
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In Context
19And when a man puts a blemish in his fellow, as he has done so it is done to him;
21And he who strikes a beast repays it, and he who strikes [the life of] man is put to death.
Cross References
Exodus 21:23and if there is harm [to them], then you have given life for life,
Judges 1:7and Adoni-Bezek says, “Seventy kings—their thumbs and their great toes cut off—have been gathering under my table; as I have done so God has repaid to me”; and they bring him to Jerusalem, and he dies 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 →