◄ Leviticus 24:17 ►
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Good News Translation
"Any who commit murder shall be put to death,

New Revised Standard Version
Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.

Contemporary English Version
Death is also the penalty for murder,

New American Bible
Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.

And he

Genesis 9:5,6 For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. . . .

Exodus 21:12-14 He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death. . . .

Numbers 35:31 You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.

Deuteronomy 19:11,12 But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid, . . .

Context
An Eye for an Eye
17He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.18He that killeth a beast, shall make it good that is to say, shall give beast for beast.…
Cross References
Genesis 9:6
Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.

Exodus 21:12
He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21
He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.

Numbers 35:16
If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.

Numbers 35:30
The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.

Numbers 35:31
You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.

Deuteronomy 5:17
Thou shalt not kill.

Deuteronomy 27:24
Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the people shall say: Amen.

2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

2 Kings 11:16
And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.

Leviticus 24:16
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