Holy Scripture
Exodus 21:24
A church father on this verse
“But what parts of the law can I defend as good with a greater confidence than those which heresy has shown such a longing for—as the statute of retaliation, requiring eye for eye, tooth for tooth and stripe for stripe? Now there is not here any smack of permission to mutual injury. There is rather, on the whole, a pro…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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22And if two men strive and smite a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman’s husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation.
23But if it be perfectly formed, he shall give life for life,
— Exodus 21:24 —
25burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26And if one smite the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye’s sake.