Leviticus 24:19-20
19If a man inflicts an injury on ▼▼ Heb “gives a flaw in”; KJV, ASV “cause a blemish in.”
his fellow citizen, ▼▼ Or “neighbor” (so NAB, NASB, NIV); TEV, NLT “another person.”
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 ▼▼ Heb “in the man [אָדָם, ’adam].”
that same injury ▼▼ 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.
must be inflicted on him.
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