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description: "\"Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.\" — Read Exodus 21:24-25 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon."
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## Exodus 21:24-25 in Context (Verses 21–28 KJV)
 
 [21 ](/kjv/exodus/21/21) Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he *is* his money.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/exodus/21/22) ¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart *from her*, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges *determine*.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/exodus/21/23) And if *any* mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
 
 [24 ](/kjv/exodus/21/24) Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
 
 [25 ](/kjv/exodus/21/25) Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/exodus/21/26) ¶ And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
 
 [27 ](/kjv/exodus/21/27) And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
 
 [28 ](/kjv/exodus/21/28) ¶ If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox *shall be* quit.
 
[Exodus 20](/kjv/exodus/20) [Exodus 22](/kjv/exodus/22)

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