Leviticus 24:18
Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it—a life for a life.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
In Context
17Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.
19If anyone injures someone else, whatever they've done must be done to them:
Cross References
Exodus 21:33If someone removes the cover of a cistern or digs one and doesn't cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Exodus 21:36But if it was known that the ox had repeatedly hurt people with its horns, and its owner had been warned but still didn't keep it under control, full compensation must be paid, ox for ox, but the owner can keep the dead animal.”
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 →