Numbers 35:22

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,”

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BSBPD

“But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And if, in an instant, without enmity, he hath thrust him through, or hath cast at him any instrument, without lying in wait;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 35:22 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 21:13If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
  2. Numbers 35:11designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
  3. Deuteronomy 19:5If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
  4. Joshua 20:3so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
  5. Joshua 20:5Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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