Exodus 21:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,

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  • Deut 19:21 : 21 Your eye shall not pity; but life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • Lev 24:19 : 19 And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
  • Num 35:31 : 31 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, who 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 who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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

    19if he rises again and walks outside with his staff, then he who struck him shall be acquitted. He shall only pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing.

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

    21However, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

    22If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished according as the woman's husband imposes upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

  • Deut 19:19-21
    3 verses
    82%

    19Then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

    20And those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall no longer commit any such evil among you.

    21Your eye shall not pity; but life shall be 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 servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

  • Lev 24:17-21
    5 verses
    79%

    17And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

    18And he who kills a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

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

    20Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

    21And he who kills a beast shall restore it: and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Exod 21:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

    13However, if he did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.

    14But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

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

  • Exod 21:28-31
    4 verses
    76%

    28If an ox gores a man or a woman, and they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.

    29But if the ox was known to gore in time past, and its owner has been warned, and he has not kept it in, and it kills a man or woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

    30If there is imposed on him a sum of money, then he shall pay to redeem his life whatever is imposed on him.

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

  • Deut 25:12
    75%

    12Then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

    13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Num 35:19-24
    6 verses
    73%

    19The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.

    20But if he pushes him out of hatred, or hurls at him by lying in wait so that he dies;

    21Or in enmity strikes him with his hand, so that he dies, he who struck him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meets him.

    22But if he pushes him suddenly without enmity, or throws anything upon him without lying in wait,

    23Or with any stone, by which a man may die, seeing him not, and throw it upon him, so that he dies, and was not his enemy, nor sought his harm:

    24Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35If one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money from it; and the dead ox they shall also divide.

    36Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Num 35:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16And if he strikes him with an iron instrument, so that he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17And if he strikes him with throwing a stone, by which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 22:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

    2If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodshed for him.

    3If the sun has risen upon him, there shall be bloodshed for him, for he should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder,' and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment:

  • Deut 19:5
    71%

    5As when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he shall flee to one of those 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 a man borrows anything from his neighbor and it is broken or dies, with its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Deut 22:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

    26But to the young woman you shall do nothing; there is in the young woman no sin worthy of death; for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter.

  • Num 35:31
    70%

    31Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Gen 9:6
    70%

    6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.

  • Deut 21:22
    70%

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