Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Leviticus 24:20 KJV
New International Version
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.
Leviticus 24:20 NIV
broke for broke, eye for eye and toth for toth: euen as he hath maymed a man, so shall he be maymed agayne.
Leviticus 24:20 TYN
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Wikisource)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, one of the most famous of all fire and brimstone sermons, was first preached by Jonathan Edwards, a prominent Puritan minister, in Enfield, Connecticut, in 1741. It was the first and most enduring expression of the uncompromising Calvinist theology of the Great Awakening.