Exodus 21:23 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 21:23

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

KJV

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ASV

But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

WEB

But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—

YLT

and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life,

DBT

But if mischief happen, then thou shalt give life for life,

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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Deuteronomy 19:21
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Judges 1:7
And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
Revelation 18:6
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Numbers 35:31
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Leviticus 24:20
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

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God often executes it in the course of his providence, making the punishment, in many cases, to answer to the sin, as Judg. i. Magistrates ought to have an eye to this rule in punishing offenders, and doing right to those that are injured.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

eye for eye--The law which authorized retaliation (a principle acted upon by all primitive people) was a civil one. It was given to regulate the procedure of the public magistrate in determining the amount of compensation in every case of injury, but did not encourage feelings of private revenge.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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