Exodus 21:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he curseth, and because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David; who then shall say, Wherefore hast thou done so?

Isaiah 10:7

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

Micah 7:2

The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Numbers 35:6

And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee thither: and beside them ye shall give forty and two cities.

Deuteronomy 19:14

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Joshua 20:1

And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

1 Samuel 24:10

Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee today into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.

1 Samuel 24:18

And thou hast declared this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me up into thine hand, thou killedst me not.

1 Samuel 24:4

And the men of David said unto him, Behold, the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, and thou shalt do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.