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Leviticus 24:20

fracturam pro fractura, oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente restituet; qualem inflixerit maculam, talem sustinere cogetur.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Retaliation;   The Topic Concordance - Recompense/restitution;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Eye, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit;   Law;   Life;   Punishment;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Breach;   Tooth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Leviticus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cities of Refuge;   Crimes and Punishments;   Dibri;   Eye;   Fracture;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Shelomith;   Teeth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Retaliation ;   Tooth ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shelomith;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Stoning;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Punishments;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blemish;   Breach;   Law in the Old Testament;   Leviticus;   Punishments;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Assault and Battery;   Blasphemy;   Eye;  

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
fracturam pro fractura, oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente restituet : qualem inflixerit maculam, talem sustinere cogetur.
Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
fracturam pro fractura, oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente restituet: qualem inflixerit maculam, talem sustinere cogetur.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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".


 
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