23 If there is an injury, then you must give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth,(A) hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.

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23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,(A) 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth,(B) hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

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19 If any man inflicts a permanent injury on his neighbor, whatever he has done is to be done to him: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he inflicted on the person, the same is to be inflicted on him.(A)

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19 Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.(A) The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.

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Go the Second Mile

38 “You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.(A)[a]

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Eye for Eye

38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:38 Exodus 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21