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Numbers 35:18-25 English Revised Version (ERV)

18. Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death.

19. The avenger of blood shall himself put the manslayer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

20. And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died;

21. or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a manslayer: the avenger of blood shall put the manslayer to death, when he meeteth him.

22. But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait,

23. or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

24. then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

25. and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

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