Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
And thine eyes shall not pity; life'shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Holman Bible
You must not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
International Standard Version
Your eyes must not show pity life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot."
A Conservative Version
And thine eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Amplified
You shall not show pity [to the guilty one]: it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Bible in Basic English
Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Darby Translation
And thine eye shall not spare: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Julia Smith Translation
And thine eye shall not pity; soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot
King James 2000
And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{You must show no pity}: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
Modern King James verseion
And your eye shall not pity. Life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And let thine eye have no compassion, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
The Emphasized Bible
neither shall thine eye pity, - life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Webster
And thy eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
World English Bible
Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Youngs Literal Translation
and thine eye doth not pity -- life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Themes
Pity » Not to be shown to offenders
Punishments » Were inflicted » Without pity
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done
Recompense/restitution » The eye for an eye law
Witness » The necessity of more than one witness for anything to be established
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
20 And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee. 21 And thine eyes shall not pity; life'shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:13
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Exodus 21:23-25
But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Leviticus 24:17-21
And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
Matthew 5:38-39
Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: