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Literal Standard Version

Leviticus 24:17

And when a man strikes any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Homicide;   Retaliation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Murder;   The Topic Concordance - Execution;   Violence;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Murder;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy;   Execution;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit;   Kill, Killing;   Life;   Murder;   Punishment;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Murder;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Leviticus;   Slave;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Capital Punishment;   Crimes and Punishments;   Dibri;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Shelomith;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Slave, Slavery;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shelomith;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Servant;   Stoning;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Murder;   Slave;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Assassination;   Homicide;   Leviticus;   Life;   Murder;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abetment;   Assault and Battery;   Avenger of Blood;   Blasphemy;   Capital Punishment;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
King James Version
And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
Lexham English Bible
"‘And when a man kills any human being, he certainly shall be put to death.
New Century Version
"‘Whoever kills another person must be put to death.
New English Translation
"‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.
Amplified Bible
'If a man takes the life of any human being [unlawfully], he shall most certainly be put to death.
New American Standard Bible
'Now if someone takes any human life, he must be put to death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He also that killeth any man, he shal be put to death.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘If a man strikes down the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.
Contemporary English Version
Death is also the penalty for murder,
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘Anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death.
Darby Translation
And if any one smiteth any man mortally, he shall certainly be put to death.
Easy-to-Read Version
"And whoever kills another person must be put to death.
English Standard Version
"Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.
George Lamsa Translation
And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.
Good News Translation
"Any who commit murder shall be put to death,
Christian Standard Bible®
“If a man kills anyone, he must be put to death.
Literal Translation
And a man, when he strikes the soul from any man, dying he shall die.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He that slayeth a man, shall dye ye death.
American Standard Version
And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
Bible in Basic English
And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he that kylleth any man, let hym dye the death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
King James Version (1611)
And he that killeth any man, shall surely be put to death.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And whosoever shall smite a man and he die, let him die the death.
English Revised Version
And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death;
Berean Standard Bible
And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that smytith and sleeth a man, die bi deeth;
Young's Literal Translation
`And when a man smiteth any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.
Update Bible Version
And a man that smites any life of man, shall surely be put to death.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
World English Bible
He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
New King James Version
"Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.
New Living Translation
"Anyone who takes another person's life must be put to death.
New Life Bible
‘If a man takes the life of any human being, he will be put to death for sure.
New Revised Standard
Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, any man, by smiting taketh the life of any human being, he shall be surely put to death,
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.
Revised Standard Version
He who kills a man shall be put to death.
THE MESSAGE
"Anyone who hits and kills a fellow human must be put to death. Anyone who kills someone's animal must make it good—a life for a life. Anyone who injures his neighbor will get back the same as he gave: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. What he did to hurt that person will be done to him. Anyone who hits and kills an animal must make it good, but whoever hits and kills a fellow human will be put to death. And no double standards: the same rule goes for foreigners and natives. I am God , your God."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.

Contextual Overview

10And a son of an Israeli woman goes out (and he [is] son of an Egyptian man) in the midst of the sons of Israel, and the son of the Israeli woman and a man of Israel strive in the camp, 11and the son of the Israeli woman execrates the Name and reviles; and they bring him to Moses; and his mother's name [is] Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan; 12and he causes him to rest in confinement —to explain to them by the mouth of YHWH. 13And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying, 14"Bring out the reviler to the outside of the camp; and all those hearing have laid their hands on his head, and all the congregation has stoned him. 15And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When any man reviles his God—then he has borne his sin; 16and he who is execrating the Name of YHWH is certainly put to death; all the congregation certainly casts stones at him; as a sojourner so a native, in his execrating the Name, he is put to death. 17And when a man strikes any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.18And he who strikes a beast repays it, body for body. 19And when a man puts a blemish in his fellow, as he has done so it is done to him;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And he: Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, Exodus 21:12-14, Numbers 35:31, Deuteronomy 19:11, Deuteronomy 19:12

killeth any man: Heb. smiteth the life of a man

Reciprocal: Leviticus 24:21 - a man Numbers 35:16 - the Deuteronomy 19:13 - but thou Deuteronomy 19:21 - life shall Deuteronomy 27:24 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 24:1
And Abraham [is] old, he has entered into days, and YHWH has blessed Abraham in all [things];
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham says to him, "Take heed to yourself lest you cause my son to return there;
Genesis 24:7
YHWH, God of the heavens, who has taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, To your seed I give this land, He sends His messenger before you, and you have taken a wife for my son from there;
Genesis 24:17
And the servant runs to meet her and says, "Please let me swallow a little water from your pitcher";
Genesis 24:18
and she says, "Drink, my lord"; and she hurries, and lets down her pitcher on her hand, and gives him drink.
Genesis 24:35
and YHWH has blessed my lord exceedingly, and he is great; and He gives to him flock, and herd, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and donkeys;
1 Kings 17:10
And he rises, and goes to Zarephath, and comes to the opening of the city, and behold, there [is] a widow woman gathering sticks, and he calls to her and says, "Please bring a little water to me in a vessel, and I drink."
Isaiah 21:14
Inhabitants of the land of Tema || Have brought water to meet the thirsty, || With his bread they came before a fugitive.
Isaiah 30:25
And there has been on every high mountain, || And on every exalted hill, || Streams—conduits of waters, || In a day of much slaughter, in the falling of towers.
Isaiah 49:10
They do not hunger, nor thirst, || Nor do mirage and sun strike them, || For He who is pitying them leads them, || And tends them by fountains of waters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. With the sword, as the Targum of Jonathan adds; which restrains it to any man of the children of Israel, but wrongly; for the original law respects any man whatever, Genesis 9:6; and so it does here;

Genesis 9:6- :.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 24:17. He that killeth any man — Blasphemy against God, i. e., speaking injuriously of his name, his attributes, his government, and his revelation, together with murder, is to be punished with death: he that blasphemes God is a curse in society, and he who takes away, wilfully and by malicious intent, the life of any man, should certainly be put to death. In this respect God has absolutely required that life shall go for life.


 
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