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Numbers 35:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intent

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designate cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.


But if he did not intend any harm,  and yet God allowed it to happen, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.


And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not hand the one who committed manslaughter over to him, for he killed his neighbour accidentally and did not hate him beforehand.


so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.


If, for example, he goes into the forest with his neighbour to cut timber, and his hand swings the axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbour so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.


Likewise, if anyone in hatred pushes a person or throws an object at him with malicious intent and he dies,


or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood is to kill the murderer when he finds him.


or without looking drops a stone that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and didn’t intend to harm him,





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