Numbers 35:21

New American Bible - revised edition

or strikes another with the hand out of enmity and death results, the assailant must be put to death as a murderer. The avenger of blood will kill the murderer on sight.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Look, you have now banished me from the ground. I must avoid you and be a constant wanderer on the earth. Anyone may kill me at sight.”

Genesis 9:5

Indeed for your own lifeblood I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from a human being, each one for the blood of another, I will demand an accounting for human life.

2 Samuel 14:11

But she said, “Please, let the king remember the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood may not go too far in destruction and that my son may not be done away with.” He replied, “As the Lord lives, not a hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

Ezekiel 16:38

I will inflict on you the sentence of adultery and murder; I will bring on you bloody wrath and jealous anger.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood is the one who will kill the murderer, putting the individual to death on sight.

Numbers 35:20

If someone pushes another out of hatred, or throws something from an ambush, and death results,

Numbers 35:22

However, if someone pushes another without malice aforethought, or without lying in ambush throws some object at another,