Leviticus 24:18 - Compare All Versions
Leviticus 24:18 NIV (New International Version)
Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution—life for life.
Leviticus 24:18 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
Whoever takes an animal’s life shall make it good, life for life.
Leviticus 24:18 NLT (New Living Translation)
“Anyone who kills another person’s animal must pay for it in full—a live animal for the animal that was killed.
Leviticus 24:18 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, life for life.
Leviticus 24:18 KJV (King James Version)
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
Leviticus 24:18 NKJV (New King James Version)
Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.
Leviticus 24:17-22 MSG (The Message)
“Anyone who hits and kills a fellow human must be put to death. Anyone who kills someone’s animal must make it good—a life for a life. Anyone who injures his neighbor will get back the same as he gave: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. What he did to hurt that person will be done to him. Anyone who hits and kills an animal must make it good, but whoever hits and kills a fellow human will be put to death. And no double standards: the same rule goes for foreigners and natives. I am GOD, your God.”
Leviticus 24:18 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
But the one who takes the life of an animal shall make restitution, life for life.
Leviticus 24:18 AMP (Amplified Bible)
The one who kills an animal shall replace it, animal for animal.
Leviticus 24:18 NET (New English Translation)
One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.