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Numbers 35:15-23 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

15. “These six cities of refuge are to be for Bnei-Yisrael as well as for the outsider and the visitor in their midst, for anyone killing a person by accident.

16. Now if the manslayer strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer and the murderer must die.

17. If anyone has a stone in his hand that could be deadly and strikes anyone with it so that he dies, he is a murderer and the murderer must die.

18. Or if someone has a wooden object that could kill and strikes anyone so that he dies, he is a murderer and the murderer must be put to death.

19. The blood avenger himself may put the murderer to death. When he finds him, he is to kill him.

20. “If anyone pushes someone maliciously, or throws anything at him with deadly intent,

21. or with hostility hits him with his fist so that he dies, the one hitting him is a murderer. The blood avenger may put the murderer to death when he finds him.

22. But if he pushes him suddenly or throws an object at him with no intent,

23. or without seeing him should drop a stone on him resulting in his death, but he was not his enemy and intended him no harm,

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