As shown in Leviticus 24:19-20 "Anyone who maims another shall suffer the same injury in return: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered."
My bible study books says that this "law of retaliation" was not created to condone vengeance but limit it. So if you hit some girl across the face, she could only hit you across the face and nothing further. It was meant to prevent these fights from spirally out of control. I never heard that perspective before. This will be important to keep in mind and contrast with the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament.
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Good point. That's a bit suspect with the "turn the other cheek" mantra. Also shows that Christianity has learned from the past...Over a thousand years before Christ, Hammurabi came up with this "eye for an eye."
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