Leviticus 24:20
breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he putteth a blemish in a man so it is done in him.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19'And when a man putteth a blemish in his fellow, as he hath done so it is done to him;
21'And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, and he who smiteth [the life of] man is put to death;
Cross References
Exodus 21:23and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life,
Judges 1:7and Adoni-Bezek saith, 'Seventy kings — their thumbs and their great toes cut off — have been gathering under my table; as I have done so hath God repaid to me;' and they bring him in to Jerusalem, and he dieth 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 →