Verse 24

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:21 : 21 You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • Judg 1:6-7 : 6 Adoni-bezek fled, but they chased him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. 7 Then Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
  • 1 Sam 15:33 : 33 Samuel said, 'As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.' Then Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
  • Matt 5:38-40 : 38 You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For with the standard you use to judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
  • Luke 6:38 : 38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
  • Rev 16:6 : 6 For they shed the blood of your holy people and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he must let the servant go free in compensation for the eye. 27 And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he must let the servant go free in compensation for the tooth.
  • Lev 24:19-20 : 19 If anyone injures their neighbor, whatever they have done must be done to them. 20 Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The same injury that one inflicts on another must also be inflicted on them.