^24:13Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ^24:14“Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.²⁴^24:15Moreover,²⁵ you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If any man curses his God²⁶ he will bear responsibility for his sin, ^24:16and one who misuses²⁷ the name of the Lord must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

^24:17“ ‘If a man beats any person to death,²⁸ he must be put to death. ^24:18One who beats an animal to death²⁹ must make restitution for it, life for life.³⁰^24:19If a man inflicts an injury on³¹ his fellow citizen,³² just as he has done it must be done to him—^24:20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—just as he inflicts an injury on another person³³ that same injury³⁴ must be inflicted on him. ^24:21One who beats an animal to death³⁵ must make restitution for it, but³⁶ one who beats a person to death must be put to death. ^24:22There will be one regulation³⁷ for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.’ ”

^24:23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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Footnotes

24 The words “to death” are supplied in the translation as a clarification; they are clearly implied from v. 16.
25 Heb “And.”
26 See the note on v. above and esp. Exod 22:28 [27 ].
27 See the note on v. above.
28 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 ( נכה hif.2). On the difficult of the meaning and significance of the term נֶפֶשׁ see the notes on .
29 Heb “And one who strikes a soul of an animal.”
30 Heb “soul under soul.” Cf. “beast for beast”; “must give … another animal to take its place.”
31 Heb “gives a flaw in”; , “cause a blemish in.”
32 Or “neighbor” (so , , ); , “another person.”
33 Heb “in the man [אָדָם, ’adam].”
34 Heb “just as he inflicts an injury … it must be inflicted on him.” The referent (“that same injury”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
35 See the note on v. above.
36 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.
37 Heb “a regulation of one”; , “one manner of law”; “one standard.”