Leviticus 24:18
If anyone strikes down someone's animal, he must pay it back, life for life.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
In Context
17If anyone strikes down another human being, he must certainly be put to death.
19If anyone injures his neighbor, it must be done to him as he did to his neighbor:
Cross References
Exodus 21:33If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Exodus 21:36But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his own.
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 →