Exodus 21:25
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Exodus 21:25 in other translations
| BSB | burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe. |
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| WEB | burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise. |
| ASV | burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. |
| YLT | burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. |
| DARBY | branding for branding, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. |
| BBE | Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow. |
| Webster | Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. |
What does Exodus 21:25 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 21:23-25
23-25. eye for eye--The law which authorized retaliation (a principle acted upon by all primitive people) was a civil one. It was given to regulate the procedure of the public magistrate in determining the amount of compensation in every case of injury, but did not encourage feelings of private revenge. The later Jews, however, mistook it for a moral precept, and were corrected by our Lord (Mt 5:38-42).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 21:22-36
The cases here mentioned give rules of justice then, and still in use, for deciding similar matters. We are taught by these laws, that we must be very careful to do no wrong, either directly or indirectly. If we have done wrong, we must be very willing to make it good, and be desirous that nobody may lose by us.
Exodus 21:25 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Exodus 21:24
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- Exodus 21:25
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
- 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.
Exodus 21:25 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Quemadura por quemadura, herida por herida, golpe por golpe. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | brûlure pour brûlure, blessure pour blessure, meurtrissure pour meurtrissure. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Brandmal um Brandmal, Wunde um Wunde, Strieme um Strieme. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | adustionem pro adustione, vulnus pro vulnere, livorem pro livore. |