Deuteronomy 19:21
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What does Deuteronomy 19:21 mean?
And thine eye shall not pity
The false witness when convicted; this is directed to the judges,
who should not spare such an one through favour or affection, but
pronounce a righteous sentence on him, and see it executed, in
proportion to the crime, and that according to the law of
retaliation:
but life shall go for life;
in such a case where the life of a person must have gone, if the
falsehood of the testimony had not been discovered, the false
witness must suffer death; in other cases, where a member would
have been lost, or the price of it paid for, the same penalty was
to be inflicted:
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot;
that is, the price of an eye an eye see ( Exodus 21:23
Exodus
21:24 ) ( Leviticus
24:19 Leviticus
24:20 ) .
