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The requirement of a “life for a life,” recalling the lex talionis, is provided when a man accidentally kills a pregnant woman in a brawl. While this consequence is generally explained as capital punishment or monetary repayment, its legal formulation in the Covenant Collection is suggestive of live, human, substitution.
Dr.
Sandra Jacobs
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A Comparative Analysis
Dr.
Eve Levavi Feinstein
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