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The Eye: Punishment for Injuring

Source: TTT

Exodus 21:24, 26 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, / If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
Leviticus 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.
Matthew 5:38 You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’