24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: …
But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. …
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; …
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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 b…
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