Quiz: Bible Catchphrases

"fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him." (Leviticus 24:20) (see also Exodus 21:24; Deuteronomy 19:21) - this was the requirement of the Old Testament law that regulated the severity of responsibility for an offence. The importance of this requirement was not limited to the fact that the perpetrator should not go unpunished, but also in the fact that the severity of the punishment should not exceed the gravity of the offender's guilt. This law had a very important meaning, because it limited the blood revenge, widespread in ancient times, when for the offence of a person of one clan against a member of another clan, the whole clan was avenged, and regardless of the degree of guilt, the revenge was usually death. In modern interpretation, the expression "an eye for an eye" is interpreted as a call for revenge.