Leviticus 24:21

Anyone who kills an animal has to replace it, but anyone who kills someone else must be executed.

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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

20a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Whatever way they injured the victim, the same must be done to them.

22The same laws apply to foreigners who live with you as to Israelites, for I am the Lord your God.”

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Cross References

Genesis 9:5If your blood is shed by any animal, I will call it to account; and if your blood is shed by any person, I will call that person to account.

Leviticus 24:17Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.

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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