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Numbers 35:22

Modern English Version

But if he pushed him suddenly without hatred, or threw anything at him without lying in wait,

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However, if it was not premeditated, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he may flee.

then you shall designate cities as your cities of refuge, so that a manslayer who unintentionally kills a person may flee there.

But if he pushed him out of hatred, or threw something at him, lying in wait, so he dies,

or in hatred struck him with his hand, so he died, he that struck him shall surely be put to death, because he is a murderer. The avenger of blood will slay the murderer when he meets him.

or used a stone that may cause death, unintentionally throwing it at him, resulting in death, though they were not enemies, and was not trying to harm him,

like when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand raises the axe to cut down the tree, and the axe head slips from the handle and lands on his neighbor causing him to die, then he may flee to one of those cities, and live.

so that anyone who kills a person without intent and unknowingly may flee there. They shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

When the avenger of blood comes after him, they shall not hand over the manslayer to him, for he struck down his neighbor unintentionally with no premeditated malice.




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