but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
Numbers 35:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if he stabbed him suddenly without enmity or threw anything at or upon him without lying in wait American Standard Version (1901) But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait, Common English Bible But if suddenly and without hostility someone hits another or throws any object at him without premeditation, Catholic Public Domain Version But if by chance, and without hatred Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if by chance medley, and without hatred, |
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,
or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before.