New English Translation

Leviticus 24:17-23 New English Translation (NET)

17. “‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

18. One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.

19. If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him –

20. fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth – just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

21. One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

22. There will be one regulation for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.’”

23. Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.