Eye for an eye
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"An eye for an eye" is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears in the Cod
In the laws of Hammurabi, an eye for an eye was applied if a free man (avīlum) gouged out the eye/broke the bone of another free man of equal status; otherwise, a monetary penalty was paid.
Sermon on the Mount, an 1877 painting by Carl Bloch
Book of Exodus
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The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Bible.
Eye for an eye
…An eye for an eye" (Biblical Hebrew: עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן, ʿayin taḥaṯ ʿayin) is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears in the Code of Hammurabi…
Image of Moses by Jusepe de Ribera
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1075, a 3rd or 4th century CE manuscript showing part of Exodus 40
Finding of Moses in the Dura-Europos synagogue, c. 244
Geography of the Book of Exodus, with the Nile River and its delta, left, the Red Sea and Sinai desert, center, and the land of Israel, upper right