Numbers 35:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And if he struck him down by throwing a stone, by which a person may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Common English Bible

If someone strikes another with a stone in hand that could cause death and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must definitely be put to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

If he will have thrown a stone, and he who has been struck lies dead, then he shall be punished similarly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same manner.

Numbers 35:17 Cross References

Genesis 9:5

And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.

Exodus 21:18

And if men contend, and one smiteth the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed:

Ezekiel 16:38

And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of fury and jealousy.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:31

Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a manslayer, which is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death.