Leviticus 24:20

Complete Jewish Bible

break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth — whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered to him.

King James Version
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.

Lexham English Bible
fracture in place of fracture, eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth—according to the physical defect he causes to the person, likewise it shall be caused to him.

New Century Version
Broken bone for broken bone, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Anyone who injures another person must be injured in the same way in return.

New English Translation
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

Amplified Bible
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so shall the same be done to him.

New American Standard Bible
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a person, so shall it be inflicted on him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Breache for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: such a blemish as he hath made in any, such shalbe repayed to him.

Legacy Standard Bible
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

Contemporary English Version
a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth.

Darby Translation
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.

Easy-to-Read Version
a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The same kind of injury a person gives another person must be given that person.

English Standard Version
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.

George Lamsa Translation
Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish in his neighbor, so shall it be done to him.

Good News Translation
If you break a bone, one of your bones shall be broken; if you put out an eye, one of your eyes shall be put out; if you knock out a tooth, one of your teeth shall be knocked out. Whatever injury you cause another person shall be done to you in return.

Christian Standard Bible®
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he inflicted on the person, the same is to be inflicted on him.

Literal Translation
break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has given a blemish to be in a man, so it shall be done to him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
broke for broke, eye for eye, tothe for tothe: euen as he hath maymed a a man, so shal it be done vnto him agayne,

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Broke for broke, eye for eye, and tooth for tooth: euen as he hath blemisshed a man, so shall he be blemisshed agayne.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath maimed a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.

King James Version (1611)
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 againe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as any one may inflict a blemish on a man, so shall it be rendered to him.

English Revised Version
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.

Berean Standard Bible
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he schal restore brekyng for brekyng, iye for iye, tooth for tooth; what maner wem he yaf, he schal be compellid to suffre sich a wem.

Young's Literal Translation
breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he putteth a blemish in a man so it is done in him.

Update Bible Version
breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish in man, so it shall be rendered to him.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered to him.

New King James Version
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him.

New Living Translation
a fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Whatever anyone does to injure another person must be paid back in kind.

New Life Bible
broken bone for broken bone, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he has hurt a man, so he will be hurt.

New Revised Standard
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, as he inflicteth a blemish upon a human being, so, shall one be inflicted upon him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Breach for breach, eye for ere, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to suffer.

Revised Standard Version
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has disfigured a man, he shall be disfigured.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ There was a man who was the son of a woman of Isra'el and an Egyptian father. He went out among the people of Isra'el, and this son of a woman of Isra'el had a fight in the camp with a man of Isra'el, ¹¹ in the course of which the son of the woman of Isra'el uttered the Name [Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh] in a curse. So they brought him to Moshe. (His mother's name was Shlomit the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) ¹² They put him under guard until Adonai would tell them what to do. ¹³ Adonai said to Moshe, ¹⁴ "Take the man who cursed outside the camp, have everyone who heard him lay their hands on his head, and have the entire community stone him. ¹⁵ Then tell the people of Isra'el, ‘Whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin; ¹⁶ and whoever blasphemes the name of Adonai must be put to death; the entire community must stone him. The foreigner as well as the citizen is to be put to death if he blasphemes the Name. ¹⁷ "‘Anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death. ¹⁸ Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life. ¹⁹ If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him —

Bible Verse Review
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Exodus 21:23-25, Deuteronomy 19:21, Matthew 5:38

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:24 - General Daniel 1:4 - in whom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,.... Which is not to be taken strictly or literally, but for the price or value of those, which is to be given in a pecuniary way; :-,

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as he hath caused a blemish in a man, shall it be done to him; unless he gives satisfaction, and pays a valuable consideration for it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 24:20. Breach for breach — This is a repetition of the lex talionis, which see explained, Clarke's note "Exodus 21:24".