Exodus 21:25

Young's Literal Translation

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.

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

²² `And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; <sup>23</sup> and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life, <sup>24</sup> eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, <sup>25</sup> burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. <sup>26</sup> `And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye; ²⁷ and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth. ²⁸ `And when an ox doth gore 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; <sup>29</sup> and if the ox is [one] accustomed to gore heretofore, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he doth not watch it, and it hath put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner also is put to death. <sup>30</sup> `If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him; ³¹ whether it gore a son or gore 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 cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; 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 placeth the lad under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 21:17
And God heareth the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calleth unto Hagar from the heavens, and saith to her, `What to thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the youth where he [is];

Genesis 21:22
And it cometh to pass at that time that Abimelech speaketh -- Phichol also, head of his host -- unto Abraham, saying, `God [is] with thee in all that thou art doing;

Genesis 29:8
And they say, `We are not able, till that 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 saith to him, `Give to me a blessing; when the south land thou hast given me -- then thou hast given to me springs of water; and Caleb giveth to her the upper springs and the lower springs.

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

Proverbs 25:9
Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

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

Matthew 18:15
`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy 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.