Leviticus 24:17-22

World English Bible

¹⁷“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. ¹⁹If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done: ²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone. ²¹He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death. ²²You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”

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Leviticus 24:17-22

American Standard Version

¹⁷And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life. ¹⁹And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him: ²⁰breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him. ²¹And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death. ²²Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God.

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Leviticus 24:17-22

New International Version

¹⁷“‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.^(A) ¹⁸Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution^(B)—life for life. ¹⁹Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: ²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.^(C) The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. ²¹Whoever kills an animal must make restitution,^(D) but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death.^(E) ²²You are to have the same law for the foreigner^(F) and the native-born.^(G) I am the Lord your God.’”