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Numbers 35:17

Verse 17 of 34. The 35th of 36 chapters in Numbers, in The Law.

13The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

14You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.

15These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreigner living among them, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

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

17If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

18Or 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.

19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

20If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

21or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.