Retaliation

^38 (A)“You have heard that it was said, ^(B)‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

¹⁹ If anyone injures his neighbor, ^(A)as he has done it shall be done to him, ²⁰ fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.

^21 (A)Your eye shall not pity. ^(B)It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

²² “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and ^(A)he shall pay as the ^(B)judges determine. ²³ But if there is harm,^[a] then you shall pay ^(C)life for life, ^24 (D)eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵ burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

²⁶ “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. ²⁷ If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.

^19 (A)then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil^[a] from your midst.

Lust

^27 (A)“You have heard that it was said, ^(B)‘You shall not commit adultery.’