Exodus 21:24
If her eye is injured or destroyed, or if he knocks out one of her teeth, or her hand or foot is injured, or if she is burned or bruised, the one who injured her must be injured in the same way.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 24:19And if one person injures another person, the injured person is allowed to injure the person who injured him in the same way:
Judges 1:6but he tried to run away. The Israelis pursued him and caught him. Then they cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
Matthew 5:38“You have heard your religious teachers say that it is written { Moses wrote}, ‘ Retaliate like this: If someone damages one of your eyes, someone should damage one of that person’s eyes. If someone damages one of your teeth, someone should damage one of that person’s teeth.’
Luke 6:38Give good things to others, and then God will give good things to you. It will be as though [MET] God is putting things in a basket for you. He will give you a full amount, pressed down in the basket, which he will shake so that he can put more in, and it will spill over the sides! Remember that the way you act toward others will be the way that God will act toward you!”
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 →