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.
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Gill's Exposition
And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it,.... The same as in Lev 24:18, which is repeated for the confirmation of it, and that it might be observed, though Jarchi takes it to be a different…
Adam Clarke
Breach for breach - This is a repetition of the lex talionis, which See explained Exo 21:24 (note).
Evil manners, we say, beget good laws. We have here an account of the evil manners of a certain nameless mongrel Israelite, and the good laws occasioned thereby.
I. The offender was the son of an…
Incident of the blasphemer, and laws arising out of that occurrence or suggested by it.
This section closely resembles Num 15:32-36, which relates the punishment of the man found gathering sticks on…