Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 19:21 in context
Deuteronomy 19:18–21
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and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,
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then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
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Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
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Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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