◄ Numbers 35:21 ►
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Good News Translation
or by striking him with your fist, you are guilty of murder and are to be put to death. The dead person's nearest relative has the responsibility for putting the murderer to death. When he finds you, he is to kill you.

New Revised Standard Version
or in enmity strikes another with the hand, and death ensues, then the one who struck the blow shall be put to death; that person is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when they meet.

New American Bible
or strikes another with the hand out of enmity and death results, the assailant must be put to death as a murderer. The avenger of blood will kill the murderer on sight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him.

Context
Six Cities of Refuge
…20If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing at him with ill design: 21Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him.22But if by chance medley, and without hatred,…
Cross References
Numbers 35:20
If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing at him with ill design:

Numbers 35:22
But if by chance medley, and without hatred,

2 Samuel 14:11
And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the next of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not kill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

Numbers 35:20
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