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Leviticus 24:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone. "
Leviticus 24:20
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
19 If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.
21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
22 You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am the LORD your God.’”
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Leviticus 24:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"
Leviticus 24:2
"“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually."
Leviticus 24:3
"Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations."
Leviticus 24:4
"He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before the LORD continually."
Leviticus 24:5
"“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake."
Leviticus 24:6
"You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD."
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