If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
Babylonian king, code of laws
If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
Babylonian king, code of laws
From the Code of Hammurabi (Law #196)
c. 1754 BCE
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