Verse 18
Numbers 35:18
Bible in Basic English
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Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.
Original Language Text
hebrew
א֡וֹ בִּ/כְלִ֣י עֵֽץ יָד֩ אֲשֶׁר יָמ֨וּת בּ֥/וֹ הִכָּ֛ה/וּ וַ/יָּמֹ֖ת רֹצֵ֣חַֽ ה֑וּא מ֥וֹת יוּמַ֖ת הָ/רֹצֵֽחַ
English Translation
Or in a wooden utensil, which a hand strikes and kills it, the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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Chapter 35 Context
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And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,
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Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, tow...
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These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and...
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Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.
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The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two...
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And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life ma...
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Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.
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And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater nu...
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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Say to the children of Israel, when you have gone over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
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Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in...
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In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overt...
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Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;
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Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.
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For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six...
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But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of l...
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Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is...
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Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of lif...
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He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when h...
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If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him,...
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Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to d...
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But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent somet...
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Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothin...
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Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who ha...
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And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the rig...
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But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,
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And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will n...
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Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but afte...
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These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.
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Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the...
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Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is deat...
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And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of lettin...
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So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is n...
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Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am presen...
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