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Deuteronomy 19:21

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

Revised Version 1895

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

20And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.

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Cross References

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

Leviticus 24:17And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death;

Deuteronomy 19:13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

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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