Leviticus 24:18
And he who smites a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
In Context
17And he who smites any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
19And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
Cross References
Exodus 21:33And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,
Exodus 21:36Or if it be known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] shall be his own.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 24:11-23
The Blasphemy of Shelomith's Son; The Punishment of Shelomith's Son. ( b. c. 1490.) 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; 11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord , and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) 12 And they put him in ward, that the mind… Read the whole commentary →