Leviticus 24:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

and he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And he who kills a beast shall make it good, beast for beast.

American Standard Version (1901)

And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.

Common English Bible

Someone who kills an animal may make amends for it: a life for a life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever will have struck down an animal shall repay its equivalent, that is, a life for a life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that killeth a beast shall make it good: that is to say, shall give beast for beast.

Leviticus 24:18 Cross References

Exodus 21:33

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein,

Leviticus 24:19

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

Leviticus 24:21

And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

Leviticus 6:4

then it shall be, if he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he hath gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,