But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands, then I will appoint for you a place to which he must flee.
Numbers 35:22 - Catholic Public Domain Version But if by chance, and without hatred 更多版本King 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, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if by chance medley, and without hatred, English Standard Version 2016 “But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait |
But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands, then I will appoint for you a place to which he must flee.
discern which cities ought to be for the protection of fugitives who have shed blood unwillingly.
If, out of hatred, anyone assaults a man, or throws anything at him with ill intent,
or, while being his enemy, strikes him with his hand, and so he has died, the attacker shall be guilty of murder. The kinsman of the deceased, as soon as he finds him, shall cut his throat.
such that he had gone with him into the forest simply to cut wood, and in cutting down the tree, the axe slipped from his hand, or the iron slipped from the handle, and it struck his friend and killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities stated above, and he shall live.
so that anyone who will have struck down a life unintentionally may flee to them. And so, he may be able to escape from the wrath of a close relative, who is an avenger of blood.
And if the avenger of blood will have pursued him, they shall not deliver him into his hands. For he struck down his neighbor unknowingly, one who was not proven to have been his enemy two or three days before.