Numbers 35:16 BSB — MannaFest

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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ASV

But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die,.... As with an hatchet, hammer, sword, knife, &c. he is a murderer; the instrument used by him, and with which he smote, shows that he had a bad design, and intended to kill, or he would never have smitten a man with such an instrument: the murderer shall surely be put to death; be condemned to death, and be executed, by the order of the civil magistrate, according to the law in Gen 9:6 and not be allowed the benefit of a city of refuge.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

If he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, &c.--Various cases are here enumerated in which the Goel or avenger was at liberty to take the life of the murderer; and every one of them proves a premeditated purpose.

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10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאִם־	ve.'im-	and if	H518 →
בִּכְלִ֨י	bikh.Li	with an instrument of	H3627 →
בַרְזֶ֧ל׀	var.Zel	iron	H1270 →
הִכָּ֛הוּ	hi.Ka.hu	he struck down him	H5221 →
וַיָּמֹ֖ת	vai.ya.Mot	and he died	H4191 →
רֹצֵ֣חַֽ	ro.Tze.ach	[is] a killer	H7523 →
ה֑וּא	Hu'	he	H1931 →
מ֥וֹת	Mot	certainly <to die>	H4191 →
יוּמַ֖ת	yu.Mat	he will be put to death	H4191 →
הָרֹצֵֽחַ׃	ha.ro.Tze.ach	the killer	H7523 →

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Leviticus 24:17
And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 19:11–12
  If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
- Genesis 9:5–6
  And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
- Deuteronomy 27:24
  ‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Numbers 35:30–31
  If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a…
- Exodus 21:12–14
  Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

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