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,

Cross References

Exodus 21:13

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.

Numbers 35:11

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

Numbers 35:20

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

Numbers 35:21

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.

Numbers 35:23

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

Deuteronomy 19:5

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.

Joshua 20:3

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

Joshua 20:5

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.