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Gill's Exposition
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…
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 Gen…
Observe here,
I. The particular care which the law took of women with child, that no hurt should be done them which might occasion their mis-carrying. The law of nature obliges us to be very tender in…
Cambridge Bible
wound Gen 4:23 c (lit. for my wound). Isa 1:6.
stripe Gen 4:23 d (lit. for my stripe), Isa 1:6 [EVV. bruises, Isa 53:5.
The taliois a principle of punishment which was anciently, and still is,…