Exodus 21:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

Exodus 21:23 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Numbers 35:31
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Leviticus 24:19
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

Topics

Assault and Battery Battery Evil for Evil Eye for Eye Lex Talionis Punishment Retaliation Revenge

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-36)

Observe here, I. The particular care which the law took of women with child, that no hurt should be done them which might occasion their mis-carrying. The law of nature obliges us to be very tender in that case, lest the tree and fruit be destroyed together, Exod. 21:22, 23. Women with child, who are thus taken under the special protection of the law of God, if they live in his fear, may still bel…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23-25. eye for eye--The law which authorized retaliation (a principle acted upon by all primitive people) was a civil one. It was given to regulate the procedure of the public magistrate in determining the amount of compensation in every case of injury, but did not encourage feelings of private revenge. The later Jews, however, mistook it for a moral precept, and were corrected by our Lord (Mt 5:3…