Leviticus 24:21
And he who strikes a beast repays it, and he who strikes [the life of] man is put to death.
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In Context
20breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he puts a blemish in a man so it is done in him.
22One judgment is for you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I [am] your God YHWH.”
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man;
Leviticus 24:17And when a man strikes any soul of man, he is certainly 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 →