Exodus 21:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:21 : 21 Your 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 If anyone injures 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:17-22
    6 verses
    87%

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

    18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

    19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

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

    21Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

    22"If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.

  • Deut 19:19-21
    3 verses
    82%

    19then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

    20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

    21Your 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, and bruise for bruise.

    26"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

  • Lev 24:17-21
    5 verses
    79%

    17"'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

    18He who strikes a animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

    19If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

    21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Exod 21:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

    13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

    14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

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

  • Exod 21:28-31
    4 verses
    76%

    28"If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

    29But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

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

    31Whether it has gored a son or has gored 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 have no pity.

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Num 35:19-24
    6 verses
    73%

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35"If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

    36Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Num 35:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

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

    17If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which 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%

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

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

    3If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

  • Deut 19:5
    71%

    5as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

  • Matt 5:38
    70%

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

  • Exod 22:14
    70%

    14"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Deut 22:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

    26but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for 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 will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

  • Deut 21:22
    70%

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