Exodus 21:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ If it was not premeditated but came about by an act of God, then I will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God allowed him to fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee [for protection until duly tried]. [Num. 35:22-28.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ 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.

Common English Bible

¹³ If the killing wasn’t on purpose but an accident allowed by God, then I will designate a place to which the killer can run away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands, then I will appoint for you a place to which he must flee.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.

Exodus 21:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:10

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

Isaiah 10:7

But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have disappeared from the land, and there is no one left who is upright; they all lie in wait for blood, and they hunt each other with nets.

Numbers 35:6

“The towns that you give to the Levites shall include the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit a slayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two towns.

Deuteronomy 19:14

“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Joshua 20:1

Then the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

1 Samuel 24:10

This very day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you into my hand in the cave, and some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not raise my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

1 Samuel 24:18

Today you have explained how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.

1 Samuel 24:4

The men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you.’ ” Then David went and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s cloak.