Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Numbers 35:18-23 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

18. If you use a piece of wood large enough to kill someone and you kill another person, you are a murderer, and you must die.

19. A member of the dead person’s family can chase you and kill you.

20-21. “You might hit someone with your hand or push someone or throw something at them and kill them. If you did that from hate, you are a murderer, and you must be killed. A member of the dead person’s family can chase you and kill you.

22. “You might accidentally kill someone, maybe by pushing or by accidentally hitting them with a tool or weapon.

23. Perhaps you threw a rock that was large enough to kill, but it hit someone you didn’t see and killed them. You didn’t plan to kill anyone. You didn’t hate the person you killed—it was only an accident.