Numbers 35:22

New Century Version

“ ‘But a person might suddenly shove someone, and not from hatred. Or a person might accidentally throw something and hit someone.

Cross References

Exodus 21:13

But if a person kills someone accidentally, God allowed that to happen, so the person must go to a place I will choose.

Numbers 35:11

you must choose cities to be cities of safety, so that a person who accidentally kills someone may run to them for safety.

Numbers 35:20

A person might shove someone or throw something at someone and cause death.

Numbers 35:21

Or a person might hit someone with his hand and cause death. If it were done from hate, the person is a murderer and must be put to death. A relative of the dead person must kill the murderer when they meet.

Numbers 35:23

Or a person might drop a rock on someone he couldn’t see and kill that person. There was no plan to hurt anyone and no hatred for the one who was killed.

Deuteronomy 19:5

For example, suppose someone goes into the forest with a neighbor to cut wood and swings an ax to cut down a tree. If the ax head flies off the handle, hitting and killing the neighbor, the one who killed him may run to one of these cities to save his life.

Joshua 20:3

If a person kills someone accidentally and without meaning to kill him, that person may go to a city of safety to hide. There the killer will be safe from the relative who has the duty of punishing a murderer.

Joshua 20:5

But if the one who is chasing him follows him to that city, the leaders of the city must not hand over the killer. It was an accident. He did not hate him beforehand or kill him on purpose.