Exodus 21:25

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

King James Version
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Lexham English Bible
burn in place of burn, wound in place of wound, bruise in place of bruise.

New Century Version
burn for burn, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

New English Translation
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Amplified Bible
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

New American Standard Bible
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Burning for burning, wound for wounde, stripe for stripe.

Legacy Standard Bible
burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.

Contemporary English Version
burn for burn, cut for cut, and bruise for bruise.

Complete Jewish Bible
burn for burn, wound for wound and bruise for bruise.

Darby Translation
branding for branding, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Easy-to-Read Version
a burn for a burn, a bruise for a bruise, a cut for a cut.

English Standard Version
burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

George Lamsa Translation
Burning for burning, wound for wound, slap for slap.

Good News Translation
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Christian Standard Bible®
burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.

Literal Translation
branding for branding, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
burnynge for burnynge, wounde for wounde, strype for strype.

American Standard Version
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Bible in Basic English
Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Burnyng for burnyng, wounde for wounde, strype for strype.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

King James Version (1611)
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

English Revised Version
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Berean Standard Bible
burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
brennyng for brennyng, wounde `with schedyng of blood for wounde `with schedyng of blood, `a wan wounde for a wan wounde.

Young's Literal Translation
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Update Bible Version
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Webster's Bible Translation
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

World English Bible
burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

New King James Version
burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

New Living Translation
a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise.

New Life Bible
burn for burn, cut for cut, sore for sore.

New Revised Standard
burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
brand for brand, wound for wound, - stripe for stripe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Revised Standard Version
burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Contextual Overview

²²"When there's a fight and in the fight a pregnant woman is hit so that she miscarries but is not otherwise hurt, the one responsible has to pay whatever the husband demands in compensation. But if there is further damage, then you must give life for life—eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. ²⁶"If a slave owner hits the eye of a slave or handmaid and ruins it, the owner must let the slave go free because of the eye. If the owner knocks out the tooth of the male or female slave, the slave must be released and go free because of the tooth. ²⁸"If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned. The meat cannot be eaten but the owner of the ox is in the clear. But if the ox has a history of goring and the owner knew it and did nothing to guard against it, then if the ox kills a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned and the owner given the death penalty. If a ransom is agreed upon instead of death, he must pay it in full as a redemption for his life. If a son or daughter is gored, the same judgment holds. If it is a slave or a handmaid the ox gores, thirty shekels of silver is to be paid to the owner and the ox stoned. ³³"If someone uncovers a cistern or digs a pit and leaves it open and an ox or donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit must pay whatever the animal is worth to its owner but can keep the dead animal. ³⁵"If someone's ox injures a neighbor's ox and the ox dies, they must sell the live ox and split the price; they must also split the dead animal. But if the ox had a history of goring and the owner knew it and did nothing to guard against it, the owner must pay an ox for an ox but can keep the dead animal."

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Cross-References

Genesis 21:17
Meanwhile, God heard the boy crying. The angel of God called from Heaven to Hagar, "What's wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid. God has heard the boy and knows the fix he's in. Up now; go get the boy. Hold him tight. I'm going to make of him a great nation."

Genesis 21:22
At about that same time, Abimelech and the captain of his troops, Phicol, spoke to Abraham: "No matter what you do, God is on your side. So swear to me that you won't do anything underhanded to me or any of my family. For as long as you live here, swear that you'll treat me and my land as well as I've treated you."

Genesis 29:8
"We can't," they said. "Not until all the shepherds get here. It takes all of us to roll the stone from the well. Not until then can we water the flocks."

Proverbs 17:10
A quiet rebuke to a person of good sense does more than a whack on the head of a fool.

Proverbs 25:9
In the heat of an argument, don't betray confidences; Word is sure to get around, and no one will trust you.

Proverbs 27:5
A spoken reprimand is better than approval that's never expressed.

Matthew 18:15
"If a fellow believer hurts you, go and tell him—work it out between the two of you. If he listens, you've made a friend. If he won't listen, take one or two others along so that the presence of witnesses will keep things honest, and try again. If he still won't listen, tell the church. If he won't listen to the church, you'll have to start over from scratch, confront him with the need for repentance, and offer again God's forgiving love.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. This is to be understood of burning a man's flesh with fire; of wounds made by any means, so that the blood is let out; and of blows, and the prints and marks of them; of stripes and weals where the blood is settled, and the part is turned black and blue: the Targum of Jonathan is, the price of the pain of burning for burning, c. and indeed, in everyone of these cases, the law could not be well literally executed for it would be very difficult to burn and wound and mangle a man exactly as he had done another: and as Favorinus h objects against the law of the twelve tables of the Romans concerning retaliation, how can a man make a wound in another exactly as long, and as broad, and as deep as that he has given? nor would he suffer a larger to be made, as it was not just it should; and to which may be added, that all constitutions are not alike, and burning and wounding and striping, especially in some parts, might prove mortal, and the person might die thereby; to them the law of retaliation would not be observed, the punishment would be exceeded; and it is much more agreeable to justice and equity that it should be lessened rather than increased; and it may be observed, the law of the twelve tables with the Romans, concerning maiming of members, only took place when the parties could not come to an agreement; and with respect to the Jewish law, Josephus i himself says, that the man that has his eye put out may receive money for it, if he is willing, which the law allows of.

h A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 20. c. 1. i Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 4. c. 33, 35.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The rule would seem to refer to a case in which the wife of a man interfered in a quarrel. This law, “the jus talionis,” is elsewhere repeated in substance, compare the marginal references. and Genesis 9:6. It has its root in a simple conception of justice, and is found in the laws of many ancient nations. It serves in this place as a maxim for the magistrate in awarding the amount of compensation to be paid for the infliction of personal injury. The sum was to be as nearly as possible the worth in money of the power lost by the injured person. Our Lord quotes Exodus 21:24 as representing the form of the law, in order to illustrate the distinction between the letter and the spirit Matthew 5:38. The tendency of the teaching of the Scribes and Pharisees was to confound the obligations of the conscience with the external requirements of the law. The law, in its place, was still to be “holy and just and good,” Romans 7:12, but its direct purpose was to protect the community, not to guide the heart of the believer, who was not to exact eye for eye, tooth for tooth, but to love his enemies, and to forgive all injuries.