Leviticus 24:21

He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

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In The King James Version

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

In Context

20Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.

22You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:5And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.

Leviticus 24:17And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

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 →

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