Numbers 35:22 - The Message22-27 “If, however, he impulsively pushes someone and there is no history of hard feelings, or he impetuously picks up something and throws it, or he accidentally drops a stone tool—a maul or hammer, say—and it hits and kills someone he didn’t even know was there, and there’s no suspicion that there was bad blood between them, the community is to judge between the killer and the avenger following these guidelines. It’s the task of the community to save the killer from the hand of the avenger—the community is to return him to his asylum-city to which he fled. He must stay there until the death of the High Priest who was anointed with the holy oil. But if the murderer leaves the asylum-city to which he has fled, and the avenger finds him outside the borders of his asylum-city, the avenger has a right to kill the murderer. And he’s not considered guilty of murder. See the chapterMore versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 176922 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait, See the chapterAmplified Bible - Classic Edition22 But if he stabbed him suddenly without enmity or threw anything at or upon him without lying in wait See the chapterAmerican Standard Version (1901)22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait, See the chapterCommon English Bible22 But if suddenly and without hostility someone hits another or throws any object at him without premeditation, See the chapterCatholic Public Domain Version22 But if by chance, and without hatred See the chapter |