One who beats an animal to death ¹  must make restitution for it, but ²  one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

biblegateway Lev 24:21

‘Thus the one who kills an animal shall make it good, but the one who kills a man shall be put to death.

Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, but whoever kills a person is to be put to death.

Whoever kills an animal must replace it. Whoever kills a person must be put to death.

biblegateway Lev 24:21

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.

Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be put to death.

bibleoremus Lev 24:21

One who kills an animal shall make restitution for it; but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.

Whoever strikes and kills an animal is to make restitution, but whoever strikes a man and kills him must be put to death.

biblegateway Lev 24:21

‘And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death.

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

biblegateway Lev 24:21

One who beats an animal to death ¹  must make restitution for it, but ²  one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

¹ sn See the note on v. 18 above.

² tn Heb “and,” but here the Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) is adversative, contrasting the consequences of beating an animal to death with those of beating a person to death.