![]() Deuteronomy 34:7Īnd Moses an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, Deuteronomy 32:10 ![]() the man tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: Deuteronomy 28:56 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity. Deuteronomy 19:21Īnd thine eye shall not pity life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee. Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: Deuteronomy 15:9īeware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. Deuteronomy 7:16Īnd thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods for that a snare unto thee. Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken Leviticus 24:20īreach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him. And Raba said, “He who passes over an opportunity to retaliate has all his transgressions passed over.” (b.94 Verses About Eye from 21 Books Exodus 21:24Įye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Exodus 21:26Īnd 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. Regarding those who are insulted but do not return an insult, those who are rebuked without replying, those who do good merely out of love for God and who rejoice in their sufferings, the scripture says : “Let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.” Indeed, such a man keeps a matter in his heart. These instructions sound like impossible demands until we remember that there is a judge in a higher court of law that will one day settle all accounts. These are a few of the practical out-workings of His teaching regarding forgiveness: “If you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you” (Matthew 6:14). Do not demand your fair measure or pound of flesh.” In the same regard He told His disciples to turn the other cheek, settle out of court, and go the extra mile. His message to them was, “Do not press charges. He urged His disciples to be an entirely different breed of people. Nevertheless, people often invoke the standard of eye-for-eye as a justification for taking personal vengeance, and they did so in the days of the Master too. “Eye-for-eye” means “let the punishment fit the crime.” The Torah imposes the eye-for-eye rule as a standard for liability in a court of law. Rather the court of law ascribed a penalty or punishment considered to be of equal value (usually monetary) to the offence committed. Jewish law courts did not actually poke out eyes and knock out teeth. Eye-for-eye is a biblical expression for fair and equitable punishment. In the context of Jewish interpretation, the Torah’s eye-for-eye laws created axiomatic limits for restitution and damages imposed by formal courts of law. (Matthew 5:38-39)ĭid Torah really encourage people to take personal revenge? No. You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” But I say to you, do not resist an evil person but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. Yeshua seemed to contradict the rule of repaying measure for measure when He said, “I say to you, do not resist an evil person.” The Torah says, “eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise” (Exodus 21:24). It’s commonly believed that Yeshua’s teachings about love, forgiveness, and turning the other cheek contradict the harsh Old Testament standard of justice.
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