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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“And all the great traditions of the Past
They saw reflected in the coming time.
And thus forever with reverted look
The mystic volume of the world they read,
Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)