Leviticus 24:18

Christian Standard Bible ®

Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, life for life.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He who strikes a animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

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

Lexham English Bible
And he who kills a domestic animal must repay for it life in place of life.

New Century Version
Whoever kills an animal that belongs to another person must give that person another animal to take its place.

New English Translation
One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.

Amplified Bible
'The one who kills an animal shall replace it, animal for animal.

New American Standard Bible
'But the one who takes the life of an animal shall make restitution, life for life.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he that killeth a beast, he shal restore it, beast for beast.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the one who strikes down the life of an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life.

Contemporary English Version
but the killing of an animal that belongs to someone else requires only that the animal be replaced.

Complete Jewish Bible
Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Whoever kills an animal that belongs to another person must give another animal to take its place.

English Standard Version
Whoever takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life.

George Lamsa Translation
And he who kills a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

Good News Translation
and any who kill an animal belonging to someone else must replace it. The principle is a life for a life.

Literal Translation
And he who smites an animal to death shall make it good, soul for soul.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but he that slayeth a beest, shall paye for it. Soule for soule.

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

Bible in Basic English
And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he that kylleth a beast, let hym make hym good, beast for beast.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life.

King James Version (1611)
And he that killeth a beast, shall make it good; beast for beast.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And whosoever shall smite a beast, and it shall die, let him render life for life.

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

Berean Standard Bible
Whoever kills an animal must make restitution-life for life.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he that smytith a beeste, yelde oon in his stide, that is, lijf for lijf.

Young's Literal Translation
`And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, body for body.

Update Bible Version
And he that smites a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

World English Bible
He who strikes a animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

New King James Version
Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

New Living Translation
"Anyone who kills another person's animal must pay for it in full—a live animal for the animal that was killed.

New Life Bible
The one who takes the life of an animal will pay for it, a life for a life.

New Revised Standard
Anyone who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he that by smiting taketh away the life of a beast, shall make it good, - life for life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that killeth a beast, shall make it good that is to say, shall give beast for beast.

Revised Standard Version
He who kills a beast shall make it good, life for life.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The one who takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for life.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man. ¹¹Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name, and they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.) ¹²They put him in custody until the Lord’s decision could be made clear to them. ¹³Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ¹⁴“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him. ¹⁵And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin. ¹⁶Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the resident alien or the native. ¹⁷“If a man kills anyone, he must be put to death. ¹⁸Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, life for life. ¹⁹If any man inflicts a permanent injury on his neighbor, whatever he has done is to be done to him:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that killeth: Leviticus 24:21, Exodus 21:34-36

beast for beast: Heb. life for life

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:14 - make it good

Cross-References

Genesis 24:8
If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don’t let my son go back there.”

Genesis 24:9
So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham’s thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

Genesis 24:14
Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

Proverbs 31:26
Her mouth speaks wisdom,and loving instruction is on her tongue.

1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another, and be compassionate and humble,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he that killeth a beast shall make it good,.... Pay for it, give the value of it, or another as good as that instead of it, as follows:

beast for beast; or "soul for soul"; life for life, that is, a living one for that the life of which is taken away, and one every way as good as that.