17 Bible Verses about Equality Of Punishment
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‘If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death. The one who takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for life. If a man injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him:read more.
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him. Thus the one who kills an animal shall make it good, but the one who kills a man shall be put to death. There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the Lord your God.’”
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.
Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’
Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.
But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,
‘If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death. The one who takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for life.
The one who takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for life.
As the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’
He said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’”
Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, “The one who permits any of the men whom I bring into your hands to escape shall give up his life in exchange.”
They will bear the punishment of their iniquity; as the iniquity of the inquirer is, so the iniquity of the prophet will be,
For thus says the Lord God, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.