²³ But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,^{(A) 24} eye for eye, tooth for tooth,^(B) hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵ burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

¹⁹ Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner:

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

Eye for Eye

³⁸ “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’^[a](A)