New English Translation
Leviticus 24:19
19If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him –
Leviticus 24:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
- New International Version (NIV)Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner:
- English Standard Version (ESV)If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him,
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him—
Context of Leviticus 24:19
17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death. 18One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life. If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him – 20fracture 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. 21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.
Read all of Leviticus 24Leviticus 24:19 word by word
וְאִ֕ישׁ כִּֽי־יִתֵּ֥ן מ֖וּם בַּעֲמִית֑וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔ה כֵּ֖ן יֵעָ֥שֶׂה לּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 24:19
- Deuteronomy 19:21You 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.
- Matthew 5:38“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’
- Matthew 7:2For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.
Commentaries on Leviticus 24:19
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-23Verses 10-23 This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites, should be entitled to the benefit of the law, so as not to suffer…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-23A large group of non-Israelites, including other Semitic people and Egyptians, left Egypt with the Israelites (Exodus 12:38). Among them was a man with an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father. A fight broke out between this man and a full-blooded Israelite. the man who was half-Egyptian verbally cursed the Israelite, using the name of God in a disrespectful manner.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-2217-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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