Numbers 35:22 “But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws a…”

Numbers 35:22

But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,

World English Bible

“‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

American Standard Version

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,

Geneva Bible 1599

But if he pusshed him vnaduisedly, and not of hatred, or cast vpon him any thing, without laying of waite,

Darby Translation

But if he have thrust at him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him anything unintentionally,

Young's Literal Translation

'And if, in an instant, without enmity, he hath thrust him through, or hath cast at him any instrument, without lying in wait;

Bible in Basic English

But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

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Cross references

“But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,”

Numbers 35:11 Exodus 21:13 Deuteronomy 19:5 Joshua 20:3 Joshua 20:5

Numbers 35:11 · BSB

designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

Exodus 21:13 · BSB

If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

Deuteronomy 19:5 · BSB

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his lif…

Joshua 20:3 · BSB

so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:5 · BSB

Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.

23or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,

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