Leviticus 24:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Anyone who maims another shall suffer the same injury in return:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And if a man causes a blemish or disfigurement on his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:

American Standard Version (1901)

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:

Common English Bible

If someone injures a fellow citizen, they will suffer the same injury they inflicted:

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever will have inflicted a blemish on any of his citizens, just as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:

Leviticus 24:19 Cross References

Exodus 21:23

If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,

Exodus 21:24

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

Exodus 21:25

burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Leviticus 24:18

Anyone who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life.

Leviticus 24:20

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered.

Matthew 5:38

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

Matthew 7:2

For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

Deuteronomy 19:21

Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.