in Exodus 21:1 with the words, "these are the ordinances (, ha-mishpatim) that you shall set before them." Exodus 24:3 then echoes, "Moses came and told the people . . . all the ordinances (, ha-mishpatim)," and then "all the people answered with one voice, and said: 'All the words that the Lord has spoken will we do.'"

In three separate places--Exodus 21:22-25; Leviticus 24:19-21; and Deuteronomy 19:16-21--the Torah sets forth the law of "an eye for an eye."

Exodus chapter 22

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