Leviticus 24:17-22
New American Standard Bible
An Eye for an Eye
17 ‘Now (A)if someone [a]takes any human life, he must be put to death. 18 But (B)the one who [b]takes the life of an animal shall make restitution, life for life. 19 If someone injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so shall it be done to him: 20 (C)fracture for fracture, (D)eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a person, so shall it be [c]inflicted on him. 21 So the one who [d]kills an animal shall make restitution, but (E)the one who [e]kills a person shall be put to death. 22 There shall be only (F)one [f]standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the Lord your God.’”
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- Leviticus 24:17 Lit strikes
- Leviticus 24:18 Lit strikes
- Leviticus 24:20 Lit given
- Leviticus 24:21 Lit strikes down
- Leviticus 24:21 Lit strikes down
- Leviticus 24:22 Lit judgment
Leviticus 24:17-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
17 Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.(A) 18 Anyone who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life.(B) 19 Anyone who maims another shall suffer the same injury in return: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered.(C) 21 One who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.(D) 22 You shall have one law for the alien and for the native-born, for I am the Lord your God.”(E)
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