21And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: …
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, …
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)Here is a statute for the preventing of frauds and perjuries; for the divine law takes care of men’s rights and properties, and has made a hedge about them. Such a friend is it to human society and men’s civil interest. I. A law against frauds, Deut. 19:14. 1. Here is an implicit direction given to the first planters of Canaan to fix land-marks, according to the distribution of the land to the sev…
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