Numbers 35:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Likewise, if someone pushes another from hatred or hurls something at another, lying in wait, and death ensues,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ But if he stabbed him through hatred or hurled at him by lying in wait so that he died

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

Common English Bible

²⁰ If in hatred someone hits another or throws something at him with premeditation, he will be put to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ If, out of hatred, anyone assaults a man, or throws anything at him with ill intent,

Numbers 35:20 Cross References

Exodus 21:14

But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But if someone at enmity with another lies in wait and attacks and takes the life of that person and flees into one of these cities,

2 Samuel 20:10

But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab’s hand; Joab struck him in the belly so that his entrails poured out on the ground, and he died. He did not strike a second blow. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gateway to speak with him privately, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. So he died on account of the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.

Genesis 4:8

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Acts 23:21

But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. They are ready now and are waiting for your consent.”

Acts 20:3

where he stayed for three months. He was about to set sail for Syria when a plot was made against him by the Jews, so he decided to return through Macedonia.

Luke 4:29

They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff.

Mark 6:19

And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

Proverbs 28:17

If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

Proverbs 26:24

An enemy dissembles in speaking while harboring deceit within;

Psalm 11:2

for look, the wicked bend the bow, they have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon because he had raped his sister Tamar.

1 Samuel 24:11

See, my father, see the corner of your cloak in my hand, for by the fact that I cut off the corner of your cloak and did not kill you, you may know for certain that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you are hunting me to take my life.

1 Samuel 20:1

David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came before Jonathan and said, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin against your father that he is trying to take my life?”

1 Samuel 18:25

Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no marriage present except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged on the king’s enemies.’ ” Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

Genesis 4:5

but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood is the one who shall put the murderer to death; when they meet, the avenger of blood shall execute the sentence.

Numbers 35:21

or in enmity strikes another with the hand, and death ensues, then the one who struck the blow shall be put to death; that person is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.