Verse 38
"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 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. 23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning 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. 27 If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
- Lev 24:19-20 : 19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
- 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.
- Matt 5:27 : 27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'
- Deut 19:19 : 19 then 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.