Leviticus 24:21

'And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, and he who smiteth [the life of] man is put to death;

Young's Literal Translation

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

20breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he putteth a blemish in a man so it is done in him.

22one judgment is to you; as a sojourner so is a native; for I [am] Jehovah your God.'

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Cross References

Genesis 9:5'And 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 24:17'And when a man smiteth 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 →

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