Leviticus 24:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish or disfigurement on a man, so shall it be done to him. [Matt. 5:38-42; 7:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.

Common English Bible

²⁰ broken bone for broken bone, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The same injury the person inflicted on the other will be inflicted on them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, shall he repay. Whatever degree of blemish he has inflicted, so shall he be compelled to suffer.

Leviticus 24:20 Cross References

Matthew 5:38

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

Deuteronomy 19:21

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

Leviticus 24:19

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

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.