Leviticus 24:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ He who kills a beast shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ He who kills a beast shall replace it; he who kills a man shall be put to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

Common English Bible

²¹ Someone who kills an animal must make amends for it, but whoever kills a human being must be executed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Whoever strikes down a beast, shall repay another. Whoever strikes a man shall be punished.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ He that striketh a beast shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.

Leviticus 24:21 Cross References

Genesis 9:5

For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man's brother I will require the life of man.

Exodus 21:33

“When a man leaves a pit open, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it,

Leviticus 6:4

when one has sinned and become guilty, he shall restore what he took by robbery, or what he got by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,