Deuteronomy 19:13 (WEB)
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.
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“For the wont of the old law was to avenge itself by the vengeance of the glaive, and to pluck out “eye for eye,” and to inflict retaliatory revenge for injury.” — editor's note: Comp. Ex. xxi. 24, 25; Lev. xxiv. 17–22; Deut. xix. 11–21; Matt. v. 38.
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