Leviticus 24:18

Leviticus 24:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
• New International Version (NIV)Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution—life for life.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Whoever takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

Context of Leviticus 24:18

16Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death. 17And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death. Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life. 19If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

Leviticus 24:18 word by word

וּמַכֵּ֥ה נֶֽפֶשׁ־בְּהֵמָ֖ה יְשַׁלְּמֶ֑נָּה נֶ֖פֶשׁ תַּ֥חַת נָֽפֶשׁ׃Read the interlinear

• Whoever killsנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• an animalבְּהֵמָהbehêmâh · animalH929
• must make restitutionשָׁלֵםshâlam · to completeH7999
• lifeנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: lifeH5315
• forתַּחַתtachath · underneath: insteadH8478

Cross-references for Leviticus 24:18

• Leviticus 24:21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
• Exodus 21:34the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

Commentaries on Leviticus 24:18

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-23Verses 10-23 This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites, should be entitled to the benefit of the law, so as not to suffer…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-23A large group of non-Israelites, including other Semitic people and Egyptians, left Egypt with the Israelites (Exodus 12:38). Among them was a man with an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father. A fight broke out between this man and a full-blooded Israelite. the man who was half-Egyptian verbally cursed the Israelite, using the name of God in a disrespectful manner.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-2217-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 24:18

• Restitution
• Retaliation

In the dictionaries

• Beast
• Criticism
• Ezekiel
• Holiness
• Law in the Old Testament
• Leviticus
• Life
• Pentateuch
• Sanctuary
• Semites, Semitic Religion

Commentaries on Leviticus 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings