Numbers 35:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ “But anyone who strikes another with an iron object, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But if someone strikes a person with an iron object and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must definitely be put to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ If anyone will have struck someone with iron, and he who was struck will have died, then he shall be guilty of homicide, and he himself shall die.

Numbers 35:16 Cross References

Leviticus 24:17

Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged and bring blood upon you in wrath and jealousy.