Exodus 21:25

wound Genesis 4:23 c (lit. for my wound). Isaiah 1:6.

stripe Genesis 4:23 d (lit. for my stripe), Isaiah 1:6 [EVV. bruises, Isaiah 53:5.

The taliois a principle of punishment which was anciently, and still is, current widely in the world: Kn. quotes examples from the Thurians and Locrians (an eye for an eye), the Indians (Strabo, p. 710) the XII. Tables (-si membrum rupit, ni cum eo pacit, talio esto"): Rhadamanthys was said to have declared that it was a just punishment when a man suffered what he had done (Arist. Eth. N.v. 8. 3); and there are several cases in the code of Hạmmurabi, §§ 116, 196, 197, 200, 210, 219, 229, 235, 263, &c.: see Cook, p. 249). For numerous instances is modern times, see A. H. Post, Grundriss der ethnol. Jurisprudenz(1894 5), ii. 238 ff.