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Leviticus 24:21
Leviticus 24:21 is verse 21 of Leviticus chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
King James Version
And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
World English Bible
He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
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Leviticus 24:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.
21 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
22 You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 24:18Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
Exodus 21:33If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,