Amplified Bible

Numbers 35:15-23 Amplified Bible (AMP)

15. These six cities shall be a refuge for the Israelites and for the stranger and the temporary resident among them; that anyone who kills any person unintentionally and unawares may flee there.

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

17. And if he struck him down by throwing a stone, by which a person may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

18. Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in his hand, by which one may die, and he died, the offender is a murderer; he shall surely be put to death.

19. The avenger of blood shall himself slay the murderer; when he meets him, he shall slay him.

20. But if he stabbed him through hatred or hurled at him by lying in wait so that he died

21. Or in enmity struck him down with his hand so that he died, he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.

22. But if he stabbed him suddenly without enmity or threw anything at or upon him without lying in wait

23. Or with any stone with which a man may be killed, not seeing him, and threw it at him so that he died, and was not his enemy nor sought to harm him,