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Exodus 21:24

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Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

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  1. Exodus 21:22

    If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

  2. Exodus 21:23

    And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

  3. Exodus 21:25

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

  4. Exodus 21:26

    And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.