Leviticus 24:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.

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 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,