Leviticus 24:17-23

Contemporary English Version

^17 (A) Death is also the penalty for murder, ¹⁸ but the killing of an animal that belongs to someone else requires only that the animal be replaced. ¹⁹ Personal injuries to others must be dealt with in keeping with the crime— ^20 (B) a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth. ²¹ It's possible to pay the owner for an animal that has been killed, but death is the penalty for murder. ^22 (C) I am the Lord your God, and I demand equal justice both for you Israelites and for those foreigners who live among you.

²³ When Moses finished speaking, the people did what the Lord had told Moses, and they stoned to death the man who had cursed the Lord.