Leviticus 24:20
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has caused an injury to a person, so must it also be done to him.
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19If anyone injures his neighbor, it must be done to him as he did to his neighbor:
21Anyone who kills an animal must pay it back, and anyone who kills a person must be put to death.
Cross References
Exodus 21:23But if there is serious injury, then you must give a life for a life,
Judges 1:7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, who had their thumbs and their big toes cut off, gathered their food from under my table. As I have done, even so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 24:11-23
The Blasphemy of Shelomith's Son; The Punishment of Shelomith's Son. ( b. c. 1490.) 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; 11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord , and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) 12 And they put him in ward, that the mind… Read the whole commentary →