Imamat 24:17

24:17 “‘If a man beats any person to death, ¹  he must be put to death.

Imamat 27:8

27:8 If he is too poor to pay the conversion value, he must stand the person before the priest and the priest will establish his conversion value; ²  according to what the man who made the vow can afford, ³  the priest will establish his conversion value.

[24:17]  ¹ tn Heb “And if a man strikes any soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] of mankind.” The idiom seems to derive from the idea of striking a fatal blow to the very “life” (literally, “soul”) of a human being, not just landing a blow on their body (HALOT 698 s.v. נכה hif.2). On the difficult of the meaning and significance of the term נֶפֶשׁ see the notes on Lev 17:10-11.

[27:8]  ² tn Heb “and the priest shall cause him to be valued.”

[27:8]  ³ tn Heb “on the mouth which the hand of the one who vowed reaches.”