Deuteronomy 19:21

Your eyes must not pity; life will pay for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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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

20Then those who remain will hear and fear, and will from then on commit no longer any such evil among you.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:24an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,

Leviticus 24:17If anyone strikes down another human being, he must certainly be put to death.

Deuteronomy 19:13Your eye must not pity him; instead, you must eradicate the bloodguilt from Israel, that it may go well with you.

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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