Numbers 35:16
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:16 in other translations
| BSB | If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. |
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| WEB | “‘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. |
| ASV | But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. |
| YLT | ‘And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death. |
| DARBY | And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death. |
| BBE | But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death. |
| Webster | And if he shall smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he shall die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. |
What does Numbers 35:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 35:16-21
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 35:9-34
To show plainly the abhorrence of murder, and to provide the more effectually for the punishment of the murderer, the nearest relation of the deceased, under the title of avenger of blood, (or the redeemer of blood,) in notorious cases, might pursue, and execute vengeance. A distinction is made, not between sudden anger and malice aforethought, both which are the crime of murder; but between intentionally striking a…
Numbers 35:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 35:16
- Leviticus 24:17
And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:12-14
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
- Deuteronomy 19:11-13
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
- Numbers 35:30-33
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
- Genesis 9:5-6
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Numbers 35:22-24
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait, 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: Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
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30-33; Ge 9:5,6; Ex 21:12-14; Le 24:17
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Context
- Numbers 35:15
These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
- Numbers 35:16
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:17
And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y si con instrumento de hierro lo hiriere y muriere, homicida es; el homicida morirá: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | – Et s’il l’a frappée avec un instrument de fer, et qu’elle meure, il est meurtrier: le meurtrier sera certainement mis à mort. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn er ihn aber mit einem eisernen Werkzeug geschlagen hat, daß er gestorben ist, so ist er ein Mörder der Mörder soll gewißlich getötet werden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si quis ferro percusserit, et mortuus fuerit qui percussus est, reus erit homicidii, et ipse morietur. |