Exodus 21:23

American Standard Version (1901)

But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:21 : 21 And thine eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • Lev 24:19 : 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:
  • Num 35:31 : 31 Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

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  • Exod 21:17-22
    6 verses
    87%

    17And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

    18And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;

    19if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

    20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

    21Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

    22And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

  • Deut 19:19-21
    3 verses
    82%

    19then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

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

    21And thine eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Exod 21:24-26
    3 verses
    82%

    24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

    25burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

    26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

  • Lev 24:17-21
    5 verses
    79%

    17And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

    18And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.

    19And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:

    20breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.

    21And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

  • Exod 21:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.

    13And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

    14And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

    15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

  • Exod 21:28-31
    4 verses
    76%

    28And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

    29But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

    30If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

    31Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

  • Deut 25:12
    75%

    12then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

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

  • Num 35:19-24
    6 verses
    73%

    19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

    20And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

    21or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meeteth him.

    22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,

    23or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

    24then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide.

    36Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] shall be his own.

  • Num 35:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 22:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

    2If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

    3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

  • Deut 19:5
    71%

    5as when a man goeth into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbor, so that he dieth; he shall flee unto one of these cities and live:

  • Matt 5:38
    70%

    38Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

  • Exod 22:14
    70%

    14And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Deut 22:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:

    26but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter;

  • Num 35:31
    70%

    31Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Gen 9:6
    70%

    6Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God made he man.

  • Deut 21:22
    70%

    22And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;