Numbers 35:22

God's Word

“But suppose you accidentally kill someone who wasn’t your enemy. Maybe you shoved him or threw something at him but didn’t mean to kill him.

Cross References

Exodus 21:13

If it wasn’t done intentionally, but God let it happen, the killer should flee to a place I will set aside for you.

Numbers 35:11

select certain cities to be places of refuge. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may run to them.

Numbers 35:20

If any of you kills someone you hate by shoving him or by deliberately throwing something at him,

Numbers 35:21

or if you beat your enemy to death with your bare hands, you must be put to death. You are a murderer. The relative who can avenge the death must kill you when he catches up with you, because you are a murderer.

Numbers 35:23

Or suppose you drop a big stone, and someone is killed. However, you didn’t know the person was there, he wasn’t your enemy, and you weren’t trying to harm him.

Deuteronomy 19:5

Suppose two people go into the woods to cut wood. As one of them swings the ax to cut down a tree, the head flies off the handle, hits, and kills the other person. The one who accidentally killed the other person may run to one of these cities and save his life.

Joshua 20:3

Choose them so that anyone who unintentionally kills someone may run to them. They will be a place of refuge from any relative who can avenge the death.

Joshua 20:5

“ ‘If the relative who can avenge the death pursues him, the leaders must not hand him over to the relative because he didn’t intend to kill the other person. He didn’t even hate the person he killed.