Leviticus 24:20
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
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In Context
19If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
Cross References
Exodus 21:23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
Judges 1:7Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, scavenged under my table: as I have done, so God has requited 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 →