Examples of Talionic justice:

• Adam sins with his mouth and through food (Gen 3:6); he is punished by having to work the land for food (Gen 3:17-19).
• Jacob deceives his father (Gen 27); he is punished by being deceived by his uncle (Gen 29-31) and by his own sons (Gen 37).
• Israel does not believe God can defeat their enemies in Canaan and they say “If only we had stayed in the desert” (Num 14:1-4); God then allows that generation to die in the desert (Num 14:20-23).