Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The same type of injury inflicted on another must be inflicted on the one who inflicted it; whoever has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. The lex talionis principle is repeated at the close of the legal section — the repetition emphasizes the equal-justice principle that runs through the blasphemy, homicide, and injury regulations. Equal accountability, equal law, equal justice: these are the expressions of the holy God's character in the covenant community's legal life.

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