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Numbers 35:22

New American Bible - revised edition

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

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select for yourselves cities to serve as cities of asylum, where a homicide who has killed someone inadvertently may flee.

However, regarding the one who did not hunt another down, but God caused death to happen by his hand, I will set apart for you a place to which that one may flee.

Though the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not deliver up to him the one who killed a neighbor unintentionally, when there had been no hatred previously.

to which anyone guilty of inadvertent and unintentional homicide may flee for asylum from the avenger of blood.

For example, if someone goes with a neighbor to a forest to cut wood, wielding an ax to cut down a tree, and its head flies off the handle and hits the neighbor a mortal blow, such a person may take refuge in one of these cities and live.

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

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.

or without seeing drops upon another some death-dealing stone and death results, although there was neither enmity nor malice—




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