Leviticus 24:18
Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
BSB
ASV
And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.
KJV
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
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.
And, it should seem, this is it that brings in these laws here, to show how equitable it was that strangers as well as Israelites should be punished for blasphemy, because strangers as well as Israelites were punishable for other crimes.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk2
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Leviticus 24:21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
leads to
And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
