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20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—just as he inflicts an injury on another person[a] that same injury[b] must be inflicted on him.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 24:20 tn Heb “in the man [אָדָם, ʾadam].”
  2. Leviticus 24:20 tn Heb “just as he inflicts an injury…it must be inflicted on him.” The referent (“that same injury”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.(A) The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.

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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.

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