◄ Leviticus 24:20 ►
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Good News Translation
If you break a bone, one of your bones shall be broken; if you put out an eye, one of your eyes shall be put out; if you knock out a tooth, one of your teeth shall be knocked out. Whatever injury you cause another person shall be done to you in return.

New Revised Standard Version
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered.

Contemporary English Version
a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth.

New American Bible
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The same injury that one gives another shall be inflicted in return.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Breach for breach, eye for ere, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to suffer.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Breach for breach, eye for ere, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to suffer.

Exodus 21:23-25 But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life, . . .

Deuteronomy 19:21 Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Matthew 5:38 You have heard that it hath been said: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

Context
An Eye for an Eye
…19He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him: 20Breach for breach, eye for ere, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to suffer.21He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:38
You have heard that it hath been said: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

Exodus 21:23
But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life,

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

Leviticus 24:19
He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:

Deuteronomy 19:21
Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Leviticus 24:19
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