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Six Cities of Refuge

Numbers 35:22

In 11 translations

BSB
But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
KJV
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
WEB
“‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
ASV
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,
LSV
And if, in an instant, without enmity, he has pushed him, or has cast any instrument at him without lying in wait,
YLT
'And if, in an instant, without enmity, he hath thrust him through, or hath cast at him any instrument, without lying in wait;
DBY
But if he have thrust at him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him anything unintentionally,
DRC
But if by chance medley, and without hatred,
GNV
But if he pusshed him vnaduisedly, and not of hatred, or cast vpon him any thing, without laying of waite,
JPS
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait,
LXXE
But if he should thrust him suddenly, not through enmity, or cast any thing upon him, not from an ambuscade,Gr. any vessel or weapon.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְאִם־בְּפֶ֥תַע בְּלֹא־אֵיבָ֖ה הֲדָפ֑וֹ אוֹ־הִשְׁלִ֥יךְ עָלָ֛יו כָּל־כְּלִ֖י בְּלֹ֥א צְדִיָּֽה׃
LXX-Br
Ἐὰν δὲ ἐξάπινα, οὐ διʼ ἔχθραν ὤσῃ αὐτὸν, ἢ ἐπιῤῥίψῃ ἐπʼ αὐτὸν πᾶν σκεῦος, οὐκ ἐξ ἐνέδρου,

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • Numbers 35:11designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • Joshua 20:3so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

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