Numbers 35:18
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.
17 Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
19 The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
20 Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- KJV
- Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- WEB
- Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
- ASV
- Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- DARBY
- Or if he have smitten him with an instrument of wood, in the hand, wherewith one may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death;
- BLB
- Or [if] with a wooden weapon [in] the hand, with which one could die by it, he strikes him and he does die, he [is] a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- ÅB
- Eller om en har et redskap av tre i sin hånd, som han kan drepe folk med, og slår noen med det så han dør, da er han en manndraper, og manndraperen skal late livet.
- OTB
- Eller hvis noen slår en annen med et treobjekt i hånden og forårsaker død, er den personen en morder; morderen må dø.
- B1930
- Eller om en har et redskap av tre i sin hånd, som han kan drepe folk med, og slår nogen med det så han dør, da er han en manndraper, og manndraperen skal late livet.