Deuteronomy 19:21

Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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WEBBE

Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

BSB

You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

KJV

And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

ASV

And thine eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

BBE

Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 15–21

Sentence should never be passed upon the testimony of one witness alone. A false witness should suffer the same punishment which he sought to have inflicted upon the person he accused. Nor could any law be more just. Let all Christians not only be cautious in bearing witness in public, but be careful not to join in private slanders; and let all whose consciences accuse them of crime, without delay flee for refuge to the hope set before them in Jesus Christ.

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