Deuteronomy 19:21

Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, + 19:21. Quoted in Matt 5:38hand for hand, foot for foot.

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In The King James Version

And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

In Context

20Those who remain shall sh'ma ·hear obey·, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, + 21:24. Quoted in Matt 5:38 hand for hand, foot for foot,

Leviticus 24:17“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. + 24:17. Paraphrase Quoted in Matt 5:21

Deuteronomy 19:13+ 19:13. Deut 19:13 (Deut 19:11-13) (#6.408): T. Not to pity the murderer in imposing penalties / R. Not to pity the murderer or assailant in trial when imposing penalties Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel [God prevails], that it may go well with you. (6)

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 →

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