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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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17 “If a man beats a human being[a] to death,[b] he is certainly to be executed, 18 but whoever beats an animal to death is to replace it—life for life. 19 If a man disfigures his fellow, whatever he did is to be done to him also. 20 Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—just as he had caused a disfigurement against another man, so it is to be done against him. 21 Whoever beats an animal to death is to replace it, but whoever beats a human being to death[c] is to be put to death. 22 You are to have for yourselves consistent[d] procedures in deciding a case. As it is for the resident alien, so it is for the native born. I am the Lord your God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 24:17 Lit. soul of mankind
  2. Leviticus 24:17 The Heb. lacks to death
  3. Leviticus 24:21 The Heb. lacks to death
  4. Leviticus 24:22 Lit. one