Verse 38
`Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth;
Referenced Verses
- Exod 21:22-27 : 22 `And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; 23 and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 `And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye; 27 and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.
- Lev 24:19-20 : 19 `And when a man putteth a blemish in his fellow, as he hath done so it is done to him; 20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he putteth a blemish in a man so it is done in him.
- Deut 19:21 : 21 and thine eye doth not pity -- life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
- Matt 5:27 : 27 `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;
- Deut 19:19 : 19 `Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,