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Expression supporting proportional punishment; no more and no less
"An eye for an eye" () is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears in the Code of Hammurabi, which predates the Hebrew Bible. The law of exact retaliation, or reciprocal justice, bears the same principle that a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a s... Wikipedia