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Exodus 21:13

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but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

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Exodus 21:13 in other translations

And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

Exodus 21:13 · American Standard Version

Exodus 21:13 in context

  1. 11If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
  2. 12“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
  3. 13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
  4. 14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
  5. 15“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.