Numbers 35:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ ‘But if he has smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly 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

Ezekiel 16:38

“And I shall judge you with judgments of adulteresses and shedders of blood. And I shall bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Leviticus 24:17

‘And he who smites the life from any man shall certainly be put to death.