Leviticus 24:20

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fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth– just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:21 : 21 You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.
  • Matt 5:38 : 38 Retaliation“You have heard that it was said,‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’
  • Exod 21:23-25 : 23 But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 24:17-19
    3 verses
    91%

    17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

    18One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.

    19If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him–

  • Exod 21:22-28
    7 verses
    89%

    22“If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

    23But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life,

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

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

    26“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

    27If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

    28Laws about Animals“If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

  • Deut 19:19-21
    3 verses
    84%

    19you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

    20The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

    21You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

  • Matt 5:38-39
    2 verses
    82%

    38Retaliation“You have heard that it was said,‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

    39But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. But whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

  • Lev 24:21
    81%

    21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

  • Prov 24:29
    77%

    29Do not say,“I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”

  • Exod 22:1-7
    7 verses
    76%

    1Laws about Property(21:37)“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

    2“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

    3If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

    4If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.

    5“If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

    6“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

    7“If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping, and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.

  • Exod 21:12
    74%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18“If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

    19and then if he gets up and walks about outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay for the injured person’s loss of time and see to it that he is fully healed.

    20“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    74%

    35If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, and they will also divide the dead ox.

    36Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.

  • Exod 22:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.

    13If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.

    14“If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

  • Deut 25:2
    73%

    2Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.

  • Deut 25:12
    73%

    12then you must cut off her hand– do not pity her.

  • Exod 22:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says‘This belongs to me,’ the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.

    10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,

  • Deut 19:12
    72%

    12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

  • Lev 6:4
    72%

    4when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found,

  • Num 35:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

    20“But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,

    21or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

  • Lev 21:19
    72%

    19or a man who has had a broken leg or arm,

  • Exod 21:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

    30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

    31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

  • Job 34:11
    71%

    11For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

  • Ps 28:4
    70%

    4Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

  • Ezek 9:10
    70%

    10But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”

  • Job 21:31
    70%

    31No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

  • Num 35:23
    70%

    23or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,