Verse 38
Retaliation“You have heard that it was said,‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’
Referenced Verses
- Exod 21:22-27 : 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. 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. 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. 27 If 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.
- Lev 24:19-20 : 19 If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him– 20 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.
- 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 5:27 : 27 Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’
- Deut 19:19 : 19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.