A moment in scripture
Numbers 35:21
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
The surrounding passage
- Numbers 35:19
The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
- Numbers 35:20
But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
- Numbers 35:22
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
- Numbers 35:23
Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.