Exodus 21:25

Literal Standard Version

burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

King James Version
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Lexham English Bible
burn in place of burn, wound in place of wound, bruise in place of bruise.

New Century Version
burn for burn, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

New English Translation
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Amplified Bible
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

New American Standard Bible
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Burning for burning, wound for wounde, stripe for stripe.

Legacy Standard Bible
burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.

Contemporary English Version
burn for burn, cut for cut, and bruise for bruise.

Complete Jewish Bible
burn for burn, wound for wound and bruise for bruise.

Darby Translation
branding for branding, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Easy-to-Read Version
a burn for a burn, a bruise for a bruise, a cut for a cut.

English Standard Version
burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

George Lamsa Translation
Burning for burning, wound for wound, slap for slap.

Good News Translation
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Christian Standard Bible®
burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.

Literal Translation
branding for branding, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
burnynge for burnynge, wounde for wounde, strype for strype.

American Standard Version
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Bible in Basic English
Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Burnyng for burnyng, wounde for wounde, strype for strype.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

King James Version (1611)
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

English Revised Version
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Berean Standard Bible
burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
brennyng for brennyng, wounde `with schedyng of blood for wounde `with schedyng of blood, `a wan wounde for a wan wounde.

Young's Literal Translation
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Update Bible Version
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Webster's Bible Translation
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

World English Bible
burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

New King James Version
burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

New Living Translation
a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise.

New Life Bible
burn for burn, cut for cut, sore for sore.

New Revised Standard
burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
brand for brand, wound for wound, - stripe for stripe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Revised Standard Version
burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Contextual Overview

²²And when men strive, and have struck a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no harm [to them], he is certainly fined as the husband of the woman lays on him, and he has given through the judges; ²³and if there is harm [to them], then you have given life for life, ²⁴eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.²⁶And when a man strikes the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his handmaid, and has destroyed it, he sends him away as a freeman for his eye; ²⁷and if he knocks out a tooth of his manservant or a tooth of his handmaid, he sends him away as a freeman for his tooth. ²⁸And when an ox gores man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox [is] acquitted; ²⁹and if the ox is [one] accustomed to gore before, and it has been testified to its owner, and he does not watch it, and it has put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner is also put to death. ³⁰If atonement is laid on him, then he has given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid on him; ³¹whether it gores a son or gores a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.

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Cross-References

Genesis 13:7
and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's livestock and those feeding Lot's livestock; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are] then dwelling in the land.

Genesis 21:15
and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 21:17
And God hears the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calls to Hagar from the heavens and says to her, "What to you, Hagar? Do not fear; for God has listened to the voice of the youth where he [is];

Genesis 21:22
And it comes to pass at that time that Abimelech speaks—Phichol also, head of his host—to Abraham, saying, "God [is] with you in all that you are doing;

Genesis 29:8
And they say, "We are not able, until all the droves be gathered together, and they have rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and we have watered the flock."

Judges 1:15
And she says to him, "Give a blessing to me; when you have given me the south land—then you have given springs of water to me"; and Caleb gives the upper springs and the lower springs to her.

Proverbs 17:10
Rebuke comes down on the intelligent || More than one hundred stripes on a fool.

Proverbs 25:9
Plead your cause with your neighbor, || And do not reveal the secret counsel of another,

Proverbs 27:5
Better [is] open reproof than hidden love.

Matthew 18:15
And if your brother may sin against you, go and show him his fault between you and him alone, if he may hear you, you gained your brother;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. This is to be understood of burning a man's flesh with fire; of wounds made by any means, so that the blood is let out; and of blows, and the prints and marks of them; of stripes and weals where the blood is settled, and the part is turned black and blue: the Targum of Jonathan is, the price of the pain of burning for burning, c. and indeed, in everyone of these cases, the law could not be well literally executed for it would be very difficult to burn and wound and mangle a man exactly as he had done another: and as Favorinus h objects against the law of the twelve tables of the Romans concerning retaliation, how can a man make a wound in another exactly as long, and as broad, and as deep as that he has given? nor would he suffer a larger to be made, as it was not just it should; and to which may be added, that all constitutions are not alike, and burning and wounding and striping, especially in some parts, might prove mortal, and the person might die thereby; to them the law of retaliation would not be observed, the punishment would be exceeded; and it is much more agreeable to justice and equity that it should be lessened rather than increased; and it may be observed, the law of the twelve tables with the Romans, concerning maiming of members, only took place when the parties could not come to an agreement; and with respect to the Jewish law, Josephus i himself says, that the man that has his eye put out may receive money for it, if he is willing, which the law allows of.

h A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 20. c. 1. i Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 4. c. 33, 35.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The rule would seem to refer to a case in which the wife of a man interfered in a quarrel. This law, “the jus talionis,” is elsewhere repeated in substance, compare the marginal references. and Genesis 9:6. It has its root in a simple conception of justice, and is found in the laws of many ancient nations. It serves in this place as a maxim for the magistrate in awarding the amount of compensation to be paid for the infliction of personal injury. The sum was to be as nearly as possible the worth in money of the power lost by the injured person. Our Lord quotes Exodus 21:24 as representing the form of the law, in order to illustrate the distinction between the letter and the spirit Matthew 5:38. The tendency of the teaching of the Scribes and Pharisees was to confound the obligations of the conscience with the external requirements of the law. The law, in its place, was still to be “holy and just and good,” Romans 7:12, but its direct purpose was to protect the community, not to guide the heart of the believer, who was not to exact eye for eye, tooth for tooth, but to love his enemies, and to forgive all injuries.