Numbers 35:16
What does Numbers 35:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 35:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But 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
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he <FI>is<Fi> a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.
Context
v.15For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
v.16This passage
v.17And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 35:22
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,
- Deuteronomy 19:11
But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so that he dieth, and he flee into one of these cities;
- Leviticus 24:17
And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
- Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man.
- Exodus 21:12
He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:30
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
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