"But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."Īnother passage, Leviticus 24:19-21, reads, "And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour as he hath done, so shall it be done to him 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. “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows," the passage reads, in the King James translation. Trump appears to be referring to a passage from Exodus 21-24, which lays out the Old Testament rules governing personal behavior. And we can learn a lot from the Bible, that I can tell you.” “And we have to be firm and have to be very strong. “And they laugh at our face, and they’re taking our jobs, they’re taking our money, they’re taking the health of our country,” he continued. But you know, if you look at what’s happening to our country, I mean, when you see what’s going on with our country, how people are taking advantage of us, and how they scoff at us and laugh at us.” “And some people-look, an eye for an eye, you can almost say that. I mean, you know, when we get into the Bible, I think many.
WHAM 1180 AM radio host Bob Lonsberry asked the Republican front-runner if he had a favorite verse or story from the Bible that’s impacted his thinking or character.
Donald Trump’s favorite Bible verse involves an “eye for an eye,” he said Thursday.
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