Leviticus 24:17
And whosoever shall smite a man and he die, let him die the death.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
In Context
18And whosoever shall smite a beast, and it shall die, let him render life for life.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man.
Exodus 21:12And if any man smite another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:11But if there should be in thee a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,
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 →