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Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Verse 21. Pity. This regarded the judge, who must act with impartiality. Worthington.—The law admits of no mitigation, but inflicts the same punishment on the calumniating witness, as he intended should fall upon his brother. Lyran. and so forth—Some Rabbins (apud Fag.) pretend that this was executed with rigour, only when the innocent had sustained some real injury. See Exodus 21:24. Calmet.
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