Numbers 35:23 - Easy To Read Version

Or a person might throw a rock. And that rock might fall on someone that person didn’t see and the rock might kill that person. That person didn’t plan to kill anyone. That person didn’t hate the person he killed—it was only an accident.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Or with any stone with which a man may be killed, not seeing him, and threw it at him so that he died, and was not his enemy nor sought to harm him,

American Standard Version (1901)

or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

Common English Bible

or accidentally drops any stone on him that could cause death and he dies—even though they weren’t enemies and no evil was intended—

Catholic Public Domain Version

or animosity, he will have done any of these things,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And enmity, he do any of these things:

Numbers 35:23 Tagairtí Cros

Numbers 35:22

“But a person might accidentally kill someone. That person didn’t hate the person he killed—it was only an accident. Or a person might throw something and accidentally kill someone—he didn’t plan to kill anyone.

Numbers 35:24

If that happens, then the community must decide what to do. The community’s court must decide if a member of the dead man’s family [388] can kill that person.