Deuteronomy 19:21
And thine eye shall not have pity: life for life; eye for eye; tooth for tooth; hand for hand; foot for foot.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
20And the rest shall hear and be afraid, and not do any more like this evil thing among thee.
Cross References
Exodus 21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Leviticus 24:17And the man who killeth any soul of man shall die, being put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:13Thine eye shall not have pity upon him, and thou shalt do away with the shedding of innocent blood from Israel, that it may 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 →