Leviticus 24:20

New English Translation

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth – just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

Cross References

Leviticus 24:19

If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him –

Matthew 5:38

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

Deuteronomy 19:21

You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up food scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.