Eye for eye, water for water

Someone has no doubt said this before; I might have said it before: The destruction of Egyptians in the Red Sea is an application of the lex talionis. Egypt killed the children of Israel in the Nile, which turned red with their blood; so Yahweh put Pharaoh and his best to death in the Red Sea. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, burn for burn, water for water.

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