Numbers 35:22

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

BSB

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KJV

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

ASV

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything 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;

DBT

But if he have thrust at him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him anything unintentionally,

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But if he thrust him suddenly, without enmity,.... Push him from a precipice, before he is aware, without any malicious design against his life, but merely through accident: or have cast upon him anything; from the top of a house, or from a building he is pulling down, or pushes a bowing wall upon him, not knowing that he is passing by it: and without lying of wait: or having contrived to do it, just as he goes along, or in any other similar way.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Related commentary

But he had to "abide in it." His confinement within its walls was a wise and salutary rule, designed to show the sanctity of human blood in God's sight, as well as to protect the manslayer himself, whose presence and intercourse in society might have provoked the passions of the deceased's relatives.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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How the Hebraic tradition has read this verse — and Marcus Brown’s own reading of it.

Cross-references

6 linked verses

The verses this one reaches6

Numbers 35:11
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
Exodus 21:13
If, 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.
Joshua 20:5
Now 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.
Joshua 20:3
so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Deuteronomy 19:5
If 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.
Numbers 35:16
If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

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Around this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

Featured studyCities of RefugeThe unintentional manslayer; the high priest's death as ransom. Hebrews 6:18.

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 35:11
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
leads to
- Exodus 21:13
  If, 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 35:6
  Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
- Joshua 20:2
  “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
Through
Exodus 21:13
If, 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.
leads to
- Joshua 20:2–9
  “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
- 1 Samuel 24:18
  And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
- 1 Samuel 24:10
  Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I…
Through
Deuteronomy 19:5
If 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,…
leads to
- Numbers 35:25
  The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Joshua 20:5
Now 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.
leads to
- Numbers 35:12
  You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

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