Source 1 the rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you. show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. - verse from the torah, deuteronomy 19: 20-2, new international version (niv) source 2 195. if a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off 196. if a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. - excerpts from the law code of hammurabi, c. 1750 b. c.e. the excerpts demonstrate that both jewish and mesopotamian societies placed a high value on