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Numbers 35:21

World English Bible

or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

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Numbers 35:21 in other translations

or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meeteth him.

Numbers 35:21 · American Standard Version

Numbers 35:21 in context

  1. 19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.
  2. 20If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
  3. 21or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
  4. 22“ ‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
  5. 23or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm,