Leviticus 24:18

New International Reader's Version

Anyone who kills someone’s animal must pay its owner. A life must be taken for a life.

Cross References

Exodus 21:33

“Suppose someone uncovers a pit or digs one and does not cover it. And suppose an ox or donkey falls into it.

Leviticus 24:19

Suppose someone hurts their neighbor. Then what they have done must be done to them.

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever kills an animal must pay its owner. But if they kill a human being, they must be put to death.

Leviticus 6:4

When they sin in any of these ways and realize their guilt, they must return what they stole. They must give back what they took by cheating their neighbors. They must return what their neighbors placed in their care. They must return the lost property they found.