“If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.”

— Hammurabi

Section 196 of the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910).
Alternately translated as: If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

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sixth king of Babylon -1810–-1750 BC

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