Numbers 35:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ or, while handling any stone that could cause death, unintentionally drops it on another and death ensues, though they were not enemies and no harm was intended,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Or with any stone with which a man may be killed, not seeing him, and threw it at him so that he died, and was not his enemy nor sought to harm him,

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

Common English Bible

²³ or accidentally drops any stone on him that could cause death and he dies—even though they weren’t enemies and no evil was intended—

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ or animosity, he will have done any of these things,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And enmity, he do any of these things:

Numbers 35:23 Cross References

Numbers 35:22

“But if someone pushes another suddenly without enmity or hurls any object without lying in wait,

Numbers 35:24

then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances,