Leviticus 24:17-23

Laws of Retribution and Justice

Leviticus 24:17-23
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"'Anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death.
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Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life.
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If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him -
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break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth -whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.
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He who kills an animal is to make restitution, but he who kills another person is to be put to death.
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You are to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen, because I am ADONAI your God."
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So Moshe spoke to the people of Isra'el, and they took the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him to death. Thus the people of Isra'el did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe. see readings for Parashah 41]
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