Numbers 35:20

New English Translation

“But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,

Cross References

Genesis 4:5

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

Genesis 4:8

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 20:10

Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.

Psalm 11:2

For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

Exodus 21:14

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

Proverbs 26:24

The one who hates others disguises it with his lips, but he stores up deceit within him.

Proverbs 28:17

The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

Numbers 35:21

or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

Mark 6:19

So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not

Luke 4:29

They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.

Acts 20:3

where he stayed for three months. Because the Jews had made a plot against him as he was intending to sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

Acts 23:21

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

Deuteronomy 19:11

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

1 Samuel 18:25

Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

1 Samuel 20:1

David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my offense? How have I sinned before your father? For he is seeking my life!”

1 Samuel 24:11

Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.