Exodus 21:23

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But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,

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  • Deut 19:21 : 21 You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • Lev 24:19 : 19 If anyone injures their neighbor, whatever they have done must be done to them.
  • Num 35:31 : 31 You must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; they must surely be put to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:17-22
    6 verses
    87%

    17Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death.

    18If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

    19if the injured man is able to get up and walk around outside with a staff, the one who struck him shall be acquitted. Nevertheless, he must pay for the time lost and ensure the injured man is completely healed.

    20If a man strikes his male or female servant with a rod, and the servant dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

    21However, if the servant survives for a day or two, the man shall not be punished, because the servant is his property.

    22If men are fighting and they strike a pregnant woman, causing her to give birth prematurely but there is no further injury, the offender must pay whatever the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.

  • Deut 19:19-21
    3 verses
    82%

    19you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you.

    20Then the rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and they will never again commit such an evil thing among you.

    21You must show no pity: life 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,

    25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

    26If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he must let the servant go free in compensation for the eye.

  • Lev 24:17-21
    5 verses
    79%

    17Anyone who takes the life of another person must be put to death.

    18Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

    19If anyone injures their neighbor, whatever they have done must be done to them.

    20Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The same injury that one inflicts on another must also be inflicted on them.

    21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a person must be put to death.

  • Exod 21:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death.

    13But if he did not intend to kill, and it was allowed by God to happen, then I will provide a place where he can flee.

    14However, if someone schemes and acts deliberately to kill his neighbor, you shall take him even from my altar to be put to death.

    15Anyone who strikes his father or mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:28-31
    4 verses
    76%

    28If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox will not be held liable.

    29But if the ox has a habit of goring, and it has been known to its owner for some time but he has not kept it confined, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned, and its owner must also be put to death.

    30However, if a ransom is imposed on him, he must pay whatever is demanded for the redemption of his life.

    31Whether it gores a son or a daughter, the same judgment applies to him.

  • Deut 25:12
    75%

    12then you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12the elders of his city shall send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.

    13Do not pity him, but purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

  • Num 35:19-24
    6 verses
    73%

    19The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when they encounter the murderer, the avenger is to put them to death.

    20If someone pushes another out of hatred or throws something at them with intent and the person dies,

    21or if in hostility someone strikes another with their hand and the person dies, the one who struck them must be put to death. They are a murderer. The avenger of blood is to execute the sentence when they meet the murderer.

    22But if suddenly, without hostility, someone pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally,

    23or if, without seeing them, they drop a stone on someone that could cause death, and the person dies, but there was no enmity or intentional harm between them,

    24then the assembly must judge between the one who caused the death and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35If one man’s ox injures another’s ox so that it dies, they are to sell the live ox and divide the money, and they must also divide the dead animal.

    36However, if it was known that the ox was prone to goring in the past and its owner did not keep it confined, he must pay compensation—an ox for an ox—and the dead animal will be his.

  • Num 35:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16But if someone strikes another with an iron object and the person dies, they are a murderer, and the murderer shall be put to death.

    17If someone strikes another with a stone that is large enough to cause death and the person dies, they are a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

  • Exod 22:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck and killed, there is no bloodguilt for his death.

    2If the sun has risen on him, there is bloodguilt for his death. He must pay restitution; and if he owns nothing, he shall be sold for his theft.

    3If what was stolen is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox, a donkey, or a sheep, he must pay back double.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder,’ and whoever murders will be subject to judgment.

  • Deut 19:5
    71%

    5for instance, when a man goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood and his hand swings the axe to cut the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his neighbor, and he dies—that man may flee to one of these cities and live.

  • Matt 5:38
    70%

    38You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'

  • Exod 22:14
    70%

    14If the owner is with the animal, the borrower does not need to pay. If it was rented, the payment covers the loss.

  • Deut 22:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and forces her and lies with her, only the man who has done this shall die.

    26You shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like when a man rises against his neighbor and murders him.

  • Num 35:31
    70%

    31You must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; they must surely be put to death.

  • Gen 9:6
    70%

    6Whoever sheds human blood, by humans will their blood be shed; for in the image of God, God made mankind.

  • Deut 21:22
    70%

    22If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and you hang his body on a tree,