Leviticus 24:18
and he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
In Context
17And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death;
19And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
Cross References
Exodus 21:33And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein,
Exodus 21:36Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be 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 →