Leviticus 24:17-22

New American Standard Bible 1995

“An Eye for an Eye”

¹⁷ ‘^(A)If a man ^[a]takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death. ^18 (B)The one who ^[b]takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for life. ¹⁹ If a man ^[c]injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him: ^20 (C)fracture for fracture, ^(D)eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has ^[d]injured a man, so it shall be ^[e]inflicted on him. ²¹ Thus the one who ^[f]kills an animal shall make it good, but ^(E)the one who ^[g]kills a man shall be put to death. ²² There shall be ^(F)one ^[h]standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the Lord your God.’”