Numbers 35:16
“And if he smite him with an instrument of Iron, (so that he die,) hee is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.”
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Numbers 35:16 Context
14Yee shall giue three cities on this side Iordane, and three cities shall yee giue in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge. 15These sixe cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the soiourner among them: that euery one that killeth any person vnawares, may flee thither. 16And if he smite him with an instrument of Iron, (so that he die,) hee is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17And if he smite him with throwing a stone, (wherewith hee may die) and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18Or if he smite him with an handweapon of wood, (wherewith he may die) and he die, hee is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- King James Version
'But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- New American Standard Version (1995)