Verse 38

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

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  • Exod 21:22-27 : 22 If 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. 23 But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. 26 If 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. 27 And if he knocks out his male servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
  • Lev 24:19-20 : 19 And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him: 20 Breach 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.
  • 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.
  • Matt 5:27 : 27 You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery:'
  • Deut 19:19 : 19 Then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.