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Leviticus 24:20

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fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.

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Leviticus 24:20 in other translations

breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.

Leviticus 24:20 · American Standard Version

Leviticus 24:20 in context

  1. 18He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
  2. 19If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:
  3. 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.
  4. 21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
  5. 22You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’ ”