Deuteronomy 19:21
Thine eye shall not spare him: thou shalt exact life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
20And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.
Cross References
Exodus 21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Leviticus 24:17And whosoever shall smite a man and he die, let him die the death.
Deuteronomy 19:13Thine eye shall not spare him; so shalt thou purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with thee.
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 →