Exodus 21:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

But if death followe, then thou shalt paye life for life,

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:21 : 21 Therefore thine eye shall have no compassion, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote.
  • Lev 24:19 : 19 Also if a man cause any blemish in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him.
  • Num 35:31 : 31 Moreouer ye shall take no recompense for the life of the murtherer, which is worthy to die: but he shalbe put to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:17-22
    6 verses
    87%

    17And hee that curseth his father or his mother, shall die the death.

    18When men also striue together, and one smite another with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but lieth in bed,

    19If hee rise againe and walke without vpon his staffe, then shall he that smote him go quite, saue onely hee shall beare his charges for his resting, and shall pay for his healing.

    20And if a man smite his seruant, or his maide with a rod, and he die vnder his hande, he shalbe surely punished.

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

    22Also if men striue and hurt a woman with childe, so that her childe depart from her, and death followe not, hee shall bee surely punished according as the womans husbande shall appoynt him, or he shall pay as the Iudges determine.

  • Deut 19:19-21
    3 verses
    82%

    19Then shall yee doe vnto him as hee had thought to doe vnto his brother: so thou shalt take euil away forth of the middes of thee.

    20And the rest shal heare this, and feare, and shall henceforth commit no more any such wickednes among you.

    21Therefore thine eye shall have no compassion, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote.

  • Exod 21:24-26
    3 verses
    82%

    24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hande for hand, foote for foote,

    25Burning for burning, wound for wounde, stripe for stripe.

    26And if a man smite his seruant in the eie, or his maide in the eye, and hath perished it, hee shall let him goe free for his eye.

  • Lev 24:17-21
    5 verses
    79%

    17He also that killeth any man, he shal be put to death.

    18And he that killeth a beast, he shal restore it, beast for beast.

    19Also if a man cause any blemish in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him.

    20Breache for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: such a blemish as he hath made in any, such shalbe repayed to him.

    21And he that killeth a beast shall restore it: but he that killeth a man shall be slaine.

  • Exod 21:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12He that smiteth a man, and he die, shal dye the death.

    13And if a man hath not layed wayte, but God hath offered him into his hande, then I wil appoynt thee a place whither he shall flee.

    14But if a man come presumptuously vpon his neighbour to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

    15Also hee that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die the death.

  • Exod 21:28-31
    4 verses
    76%

    28If an oxe gore a man or a woman, that he die, the oxe shalbe stoned to death, and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the oxe shall goe quite.

    29If the oxe were wont to push in times past, and it hath bene tolde his master, and hee hath not kept him, and after he killeth a man or a woman, the oxe shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.

    30If there be set to him a summe of mony, then he shal pay the raunsome of his life, whatsoeuer shalbe laied vpon him.

    31Whether he hath gored a sonne or gored a daughter, he shalbe iudged after the same maner.

  • Deut 25:12
    75%

    12Then thou shalt cut off her hande: thine eye shall not spare her.

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12Then the Elders of his citie shal send and set him thence, and deliuer him into the hands of the auenger of the blood, that he may die.

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

  • Num 35:19-24
    6 verses
    73%

    19The reuenger of the blood himselfe shall slay the murtherer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

    20But if hee thrust him of hate, or hurle at him by laying of wait, that he die,

    21Or smite him through enimitie with his hand, that he die, he that smote him shal die ye death: for hee is a murtherer: the reuenger of the blood shall slay the murtherer when he meeteth him.

    22But if he pusshed him vnaduisedly, and not of hatred, or cast vpon him any thing, without laying of waite,

    23Or any stone (whereby he might be slaine) and sawe him not, or caused it to fall vpon him, and he die, and was not his enemie, neither sought him any harme,

    24Then the Congregation shall iudge betweene the slayer and the auenger of blood according to these lawes.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35And if a mans oxe hurt his neighbours oxe that he die, then they shal sel the liue oxe, & deuide the money thereof, and the dead oxe also they shall deuide.

    36Or if it bee knowen that the oxe hath vsed to push in times past, & his master hath not kept him, he shal pay oxe for oxe, but the dead shall be his owne.

  • Num 35:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16And if one smite another with an instrument of yron that hee die, hee is a murtherer, and the murtherer shall die the death.

    17Also if hee smite him by casting a stone, wherewith hee may be slaine, and he die, hee is a murtherer, and the murtherer shall die the death.

  • Exod 22:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1If a man steale an oxe or a sheepe, and kill it or sell it, he shal restore fiue oxen for the oxe, & foure sheepe for the sheepe.

    2If a thiefe bee founde breaking vp, and be smitten that he dye, no blood shall be shed for him.

    3But if it be in the day light, blood shall be shed for him: for he should make full restitution: if he had not wherewith, then shoulde he bee solde for his theft.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21Ye haue heard that it was sayd vnto them of the olde time, Thou shalt not kill: for whosoeuer killeth shalbe culpable of iudgement.

  • Deut 19:5
    71%

    5As hee that goeth vnto the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, & his hand striketh with the axe to cut downe the tree, if the head slip fro the helue, and hit his neighbour that he dieth, the same shall flee vnto one of the cities, and liue,

  • Matt 5:38
    70%

    38Ye haue heard that it hath bene sayd, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

  • Exod 22:14
    70%

    14And if a man borow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or els die, the owner thereof not being by, he shal surely make it good.

  • Deut 22:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25But if a man finde a betrothed mayde in the field, and force her, and lye with her, then the man that lay with her, shal dye alone:

    26And vnto the mayd thou shalt do nothing, because there is in the mayde no cause of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour & woundeth him to death, so is this matter.

  • Num 35:31
    70%

    31Moreouer ye shall take no recompense for the life of the murtherer, which is worthy to die: but he shalbe put to death.

  • Gen 9:6
    70%

    6Who so sheadeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.

  • Deut 21:22
    70%

    22If a man also haue committed a trespasse worthy of death, and is put to death, & thou hangest him on a tree,