Deuteronomy 19:21

but thou shalt ask life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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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

20that other men hear, and have dread, and be no more hardy to do such things, (or so that other people can hear, and have fear, and no more be so fool-hardy to do such things). Thou shalt not have mercy on him,

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Cross References

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

Leviticus 24:17He that smiteth and slayeth a man, die he by death; (He who striketh and killeth a man, shall be put to death;)

Deuteronomy 19:13and thou shalt not have mercy upon him; and thou shalt do away guilty blood from Israel, that it be well to thee. (and thou shalt not give him any mercy; and so thou shalt do away from Israel the guilt for innocent blood, so that it be 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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