Leviticus 24:20
New International Version
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.

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.

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

King James Bible
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.

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 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.

NASB 1995
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

NASB 1977
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on 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.

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.

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.

Holman 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.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Breaking in place of breaking, an eye in place of an eye, a tooth in the place of a tooth; just as he causes a flaw to his fellow, thus it shall be done to him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

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

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

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Whoever injures another person must receive the same injury in return.

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.

International Standard Version
Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—just as he had caused a disfigurement against another man, so it is to be done against him.

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

Literal Standard Version
breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he puts a blemish in a man so it is done in him.

Majority 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.

New American Bible
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The same injury that one gives another shall be inflicted in return.

NET Bible
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.

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

New Heart English Bible
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done 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
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.

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.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
An Eye for an Eye
19If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him. 21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.…

Cross References
Matthew 5:38
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.'

Exodus 21:23
But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life--

Exodus 21:24
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Leviticus 24:19
If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

Deuteronomy 19:21
You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.


Treasury of Scripture

Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

Exodus 21:23-25
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, …

Deuteronomy 19:21
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Matthew 5:38
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

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Leviticus 24
1. The oil for the lamps
5. The showbread
10. Shelomith's son blasphemes
13. The law of blasphemy
17. Of murder
18. Of damage
23. The blasphemer is stoned
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
fracture
שֶׁ֚בֶר (ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7667: A breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash

for
תַּ֣חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

fracture,
שֶׁ֔בֶר (še·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7667: A breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash

eye
עַ֚יִן (‘a·yin)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

for
תַּ֣חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

eye,
עַ֔יִן (‘a·yin)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

tooth
שֵׁ֖ן (šên)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 8127: A tooth, ivory, a cliff

for
תַּ֣חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

tooth.
שֵׁ֑ן (šên)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 8127: A tooth, ivory, a cliff

Just as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

he injured
יִתֵּ֥ן (yit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

the other person,
בָּֽאָדָ֔ם (bā·’ā·ḏām)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

the same
כֵּ֖ן (kên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

must be inflicted
יִנָּ֥תֶן (yin·nā·ṯen)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

on him.
בּֽוֹ׃ (bōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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