They really knocked out a tooth, for instance?
I imagine. There’s a lot about the avenger of blood and about cities of refuge. An avenger of blood could take your life if you didn’t make it to a city of refuge. If the leaders of that city believed your action to have caused an accidental death, then you could live there. If they didn’t, they kicked you out, and the avenger of blood could then take life for life. I have no biblical example of a tooth for tooth, but they sound serious about this elsewhere.
Interesting. I suppose they may have knocked out a tooth. Until the other guy said - “Hey how about I give you a piece of silver? That’s about equal don’t you think?”