Numbers 35:22

New International Version

“ ‘But if without enmity someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally

Cross References

Exodus 21:13

However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate.

Numbers 35:11

select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee.

Numbers 35:20

If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at them intentionally so that they die

Numbers 35:21

or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.

Numbers 35:23

or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them, and they die, then since that other person was not an enemy and no harm was intended,

Deuteronomy 19:5

For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.

Joshua 20:3

so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:5

If the avenger of blood comes in pursuit, the elders must not surrender the fugitive, because the fugitive killed their neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.