Abrahamic Traditions
In the Hammurabi Code and Hebrew Law, the “eye for eye” was to restrict compensation to the value of the loss; in the Hammurabic code as being literal, and in the Hebrew Law applying monetarily. Thus, it might be better read 'only one eye for one eye'. The biblical phrase, "an eye for an eye", (עין תחת עין, ayin tachat ayin, literally 'an eye under an eye'), is a quotation from several passages of the Jewish Bible.
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