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 tnHeb “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.